Various emergencies took me away for my quest to add
site-specific rpms to the install I downloaded for SL 4.4.
With your reply I made a significant progress, but still
have some questions about the process described at:
https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/create.site

I created my site in the <tree>/sites/ directory by copying
the <tree>/sites/example directory. Then I added my own RPMs
into <tree>/sites/<mysite>/Updates as suggested in:
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30x/i386/sites/example/build/documentation/README.steps

I started with scripts/README. I did modify locations.include
as you are suggesting, but that's where I first tripped.
The README file says:

Change TREE= to point to your <tree>

And in the file the TREE is built automatically and you need to 
set RELEASEDIR. One can infer from the context how the two
are related, but would be nicer if README talked about the RELEASEDIR.

Then I ran make.everything.sh  and it seemed to finish happily.

Now in my kickstart file I used to have:
#Install OS instead of upgrade
install
#Use NFS installation Media
nfs --server=<someserver>  --dir=<tree>
should I replace <tree> by <tree>/sites/<mysite> ?

I was looking at what got modified by the 
make.everything.sh script and (as the name suggests) 
it was writing all over the place, not only in the <mysite>
directory...


Thanks a lot for all the help,

Iwona





Troy Dawson wrote:
> Iwona Sakrejda wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to customize my kickstart install following
>> instructions provided at:
>> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/create.site
>> but I cannot reconcile those instructions with the
>> structure of directories that I find on isos downloaded from:
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/44/iso/i386
>> I get stuck right away where the instructions talk
>> about the "example" directory. One is supposed to copy it
>> and customize but I just cannot find it....
>>
>> Grateful for suggestions,
>>
>> Iwona
>
> Hello,
> If you are just expanding the SL CD's, you might not see the 
> site/example area.  I believe we do not include the sites on the 
> CD's.  I'd have to check to make sure.
>
> The example site is available via ftp at
>
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/44/i386/sites/example
>
> The path is quite consistent, so it's not just for 44, the generic 
> area is
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/<distro>/<arch>/sites/example 
>
>
> I'm currently working on the example site for 5.1, and it will be in 
> the same area, just with a distro of 5.1
>
> Troy