Hi Torsten,

The lorax tool should get you where you are going.  It ships within SL7.

Pat

This doc might help:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/Lorax-TreeBuilder
https://www.brianlane.com/creating-the-anaconda-bootiso-with-lorax.html

On 10/15/2015 06:54 AM, Torsten Luettgert wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking for a way to create own "install media" - an install repo
> tree would be fine, too, because the boxen I'm setting up are all
> installed via PXE from an nfs tree.
>
> In SL6, there was this revisor thingy
> (http://scientificlinux.org/documentation/customize-sl-for-your-site/)
> which looks perfect; there is no revisor in SL7, though, and I think I
> remember it being discontinued.
>
> Is there a replacement which enables me to throw a truckload of RPMs
> on top of the SL7.1 install RPMs and create an install tree from them?
>
> Thanks for help and best regards,
> Torsten
>
> P.S.: if anyone's interested, the background is this: I'm working on an
> internal product which sets up a bunch of KVM machines working together
> in a defined way (heavily firewalled, intricate internal networking
> etc.); a test run will create and configure 21 machines from scratch
> and takes a whopping 19 hours now.
>
> A lot of time is wasted during the installs for pulling and installing
> updates, setting up other repos and installing needed packages from
> there, then re-checking for updates during the first configuration
> run (I'm using salt for this). A customized tree would speed things up
> a lot.

-- 
Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux developer

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
www.fnal.gov
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