Genhdlist

[Scott Ryan]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 15:47 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 Nov 2004 13:30, Greg Wildman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:48 +0200, Scott Ryan wrote:
> > > Anyone know how to use this ?
> > > I am trying to consolidate all the FC3 RPMS into one directory, but i am
> > > struggling to recreate the header list.
> you shouldn't need to. copy the Fedora dirs from the various discs to the 
> _same_ place. (there will be some file conflicts, mainly TRANS.TBL IIRC, b ut 
> you can ignore these).
> > >
> > > I have copied disc 1 to a directory and copied the RPMs from the other
> > > discs into <disc1_dir>/Fedora/RPMS/
> > >
> > > now i need to just rebuild the headers, i install anaconda-runtime and
> > > have /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist but i am having very little joy
> > > with it and there isnt that many docs on the web to explain it..
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /var/ftp/pub
> if /var/ftp/pub contains the Fedora directory.
> 
> I haven't tried the FC3 version, but on FC2 the genhdlist tool required me to 
> rename Fedora to RedHat (obviously they hadn't done much to make it apply to 
> Fedora install trees. Works like a charm if your temporarily rename Fedora, 
> however.

I have figured it out. You dont need to rename the directory to Redhat.
--productpath Fedora will sort that for you.

For anyone that is interested...

/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath Fedora <PATH to Fedora
Dir>


cheers.

> 
> -- 
> Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur 
> 
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