[Yum] Building a liveCD with yum

[seth vidal]

> > > 
> > > [last 2 lines repeated many times]
> > > 
> > > I can grep rpm from /etc/passwd, group, shadow & gshadow to create the 
> > > files in the new directory, but I was wondering if there is a cleaner way.  
> > > Help?
> > > 
> > 
> > yum --installroot=/some/place install foo bar baz
> > 
> > that's an easier way. :)
> 
> Easier than what?  I'm already doing the installroot thing.

I'm sorry, I must have misread your message before.

you need to make sure the base system is in your install root before
continuing. Try doing an install of filesystem and basesystem first.

-sv