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
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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 .
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-Connie Sieh

> I checked http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/create.site
> but wasn't sure if that was relevant.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>