[Fedora-livecd-list] Using the livecd-creator way to build a custom Install CD on CentOS

[Vnpenguin]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Oliver Häßler
<o.haessler at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> well, today i played a little bit with the livecd-creator tools on CentOS
> 5.2 and I think it is awesome. Well, at work, I have to administrate some
> CentOS 5 and RHEL 5 Proxy Servers, and I have the problem, that once a
> while, I have to create a new Install CD, which is a custom CentOS / RHEL CD
> with a kickstart Installation on it. Right now, I have the problem, that
> when I build a new CD it should use the actual Packages out of a repository
> on my Server. Right now, I have to do it by hand to exchange the files like
> kernel rpm or other packages to have the updated Packages inside the new CD.
> After looking at livecd-creator, I search something like the mechanism for
> downloading the rpms from a repository. So something like: look at my
> comps.xml to see what should be installed and download it from a repo. Also
> a system with a kickstart file would be ok, like: create a kickstart file
> with all rpms that should be installed, download the RPMs, and do the other
> stuff to prepare the installation CD. Maybe one of u guys have an Idea how
> to manage that.

I used pungi to build customized CD of Fedora 9. All update packages
were downloaded automatically (from public repos or my local repo) for
my CD.

Don't know if pungi is usable for CentOS.
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