Jan Iven wrote:
> On 16/01/09 16:23, Ken Teh wrote:
> [..]
>   
>> I'm a kickstart file person myself.  Manual is maybe good for a onesie
>> but gets old and unreliable for N > 2 systems.  Also, I like kickstarts
>> because it's both a record of what you did.  And it can be customized
>> per machine.
>>     
>
> I guess that on SL5 (with nice YUM dep resolution)
>
> %packages --nobase
> yourpackage1
> yourpackage2
>
> would quickly yield something rather small. If you rather like comps.xml
> editing, suggest to use an addon YUM repository (which can have it's own
> comnps.xml - i.e. start with a rather empty one!)) rather than messing
> up the TUV/SL-provided one (where you would have to redo your mods after
> the next minor release is out).
>
> Cheers
> Jan
>
>   
I suppose another cheap way of doing it might be making a meta-rpm that 
contains the packages you want listed as dependencies and let the 
dependencies get resolved by the installer/yum.  No comps.xml hacking 
needed.  Would make for a pretty empty kickstart too!

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