Thanks for the details and the updated webpage!  And the really fast reply.

  I will check out revisor and ask again if any problems.


On 2/29/2012 4:24 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Eric Wu wrote:
>
>> Apologies if this has already been answered.  I checked the archives,
>> but could have missed something.
>>
>> I was looking for the "build" directory in SL6.  This directory was
>> present in SL5.
>>
>> Specifically, I am looking for the build/scripts/build.hdlist.sh command
>> which was run
>> every time you added/removed an RPM from the  repository.
>>
>> I am not necessarily looking to roll my own DVD.
>>
>>
>> Is this done differently in SL6?
>
> Yes.  We use a product called "revisor" to do the "compose" of SL 6.
>
> The basis of the build/scripts/build.hdlist.sh is to run "createrepo" 
> on the directory tree which contains the "RPMSs".  Depending where you 
> want the "repodata" directory determines where you "start" createrepo 
> from.
> For the SL 6 tree something like
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> ARCH=x86_64
> DISTOTREE=/somedistrodir/$ARCH/os
> echo " Starting createrepo in $DISTOTREE"
> cd $DISTOTREE
> #The repodata/  and Packages/ directories should be in PWD
> createrepo -g repodata/comps-sl6-$ARCH.xml .
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> -Connie Sieh
>
>> I checked http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/create.site
>> but wasn't sure if that was relevant.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>