Re: Getting the package order right.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >      I just performed my first installation of Seawolf from Cd's.  My
> > previous ones were with ISO images on an Orb drive.  I rebuilt the
> > installation images in order to use them with speech.  I install everything.
> > The system prompted me for disk two, then, for disk one, and again for
> > disk two.  It's possible that a stock disk-set would do this, but I doubt
> > it.  I notice that there are some new pkgorder options with buildinstall
> > and
> > genhdlist.  I didn't change the location of any packages between the two
> > installation disks.  Does anyone know what I have to do to start with
> > disk1 and go to disk2 and finish?
> >
> >           Bill in Denver
>
> You're right that genhdlist has a new --fileorder option.
>
> For our XFS installer, we got the "standard" order out of the stock Red
> Hat hdlist file with a modified "parsehdlist*" tool from mandrake,
> modified that as necessary (adding in our RPMS at logical places, being
> careful to satisfy dependencies), and then fed the new package order
> file back into the "genhdlist" command.  Seemed to do the trick.
>
> Maybe someone from Red Hat can explain it better than I can...  :)
>
> -Eric
>
> *get it from my server at http://lager.dyndns.org/rpmtools-2.3sgi.tar.gz
> - use "parsehdlist --raw --<otheroptions> hdlist" - it's a horribly
> quick hack but it should at least get you started
Thanks, Eric.

I fiddled around with the tool, but I could never get it to apply the
order tag.  Does anyone have any ideas?




          Bill in Denver




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