On Thu, 10 May 2007, Gerald Teschl wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I tried to modify the SL 5.0 installer by adding some rpms
> plus a few group entries to the comps-sl.xml.
> I ran "createrepo -g repodata/comps*xml ." and tried a ks
> installation via nfs.
>

With the SL 5.0 installed it is now possible to make a yum repository and 
have the installer point to it .  This way you can put your custom rpms 
all in one place.  I have been using "pungi" as the build iso system as it 
has the ability to take a list of rpms and yum repos and build custom 
cd's.

> This results in the error >
> "There was an error running your transaction, for the following reason(s):"
>
> No further error messages on the console. Any ideas what might
> be wrong.
>
> I tried to replace the comps by the original one, but the I get
> a anaconda exception "No more mirrors to try". It seems like the
> createrepo needs to be run whenever comps.xml is changed?

Yes. It needs to be run.

>
> Any suggestions would be very welcome,
>
> Gerald
>

-connie sieh