On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> The "How to Create an SL Site" page
> doesn't reference SL5, just 3 & 4.
> Is the process the same?  We never got
> around to creating one before, but I'd
> really like to play with this for 5 so
> that when we switch (still a ways off),
> we already have this in place.

If you just want to add extra packages for the install then you can do 
that just creating an extra 'yum repo' and pointing the sl5 installer at 
it in addition to the standard ones.

Then either with kickstart or a semi-manual install you get to see the 
extra rpms in all the repos you have listed - and you can specify your own 
groupings if you care to write a suitable comps xml file...

Any other customisations can be done by a script (for kickstart) or extra 
packages containing the magic (if you want to support manual installs).

I guess if you want to make custom ISOs you need to arrange to either add 
the extra repo into existing ones, ship an extra ISO of your repo or just 
point them at a network accessible version.

Keeping your own repo(s) of extra packages is handy for doing yum updates 
from later anyway so you probably need that anyway.

What else do 'sites' offer?

[ I should add that I never got my head round what sites were for since 
before we started using SL we had our own mechanisms to make custom 
install trees.  We carried that over into sl3/sl4 but it wasn't needed at 
all for sl5 since we could just do the extra repo thing.  We only do 
kickstart installs though. ]

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