Hi Torsten,
The lorax tool should get you where you are going. It ships within SL7.
Pungi should also be looked into. Depends on where in the "tree" building
process you want to be.
Pungi builds the "rpm" tree part of a RHEL release. It takes as input
kickstart files which specify where to get rpms from and which rpms to
place in the tree. This is known as the "gather" step of Pungi.
Pungi also can call "lorax" to build the files that
reside in /images/ which include boot.iso and the pxe files.
Pungi can take the full build tree and create the 'DVD' install media.
So it depends on what you have to start with and what you want as the
result.
-connie
>
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
www.scientificlinux.org
