[Yum] Creating complete repository

[Chris Kittlitz]

That tool sounds really close to what I need!  I'll take a closer look and
try it out.

Thanks!


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Brian Long (brilong) <brilong at cisco.com>wrote:

>  Not sure if Pungi is what you need or if it works with CentOS.
>
>  https://fedorahosted.org/pungi/
>
>  Since it runs the "buildinstall" utility, it appears it would work.
>
>  /Brian/
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>  On Jun 24, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Chris Kittlitz <ckittlitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Hello.
>
>  I am new to yum, so forgive me if I have missed something obvious.
>
>  I need to create an installation DVD with a complete set of RPMs to
> install on a system.  The key problem is that the system does not have
> internet access, so the DVD must contain all the RPMs required with no
> missing dependencies.
>
>  I've seen articles on how to create a repository using a DVD, but what I
> am doing is different - I am creating the DVD that will be used to install
> all the software.  It will be installed with anaconda, not yum.  The
> problem I have is identifying all the RPMs to put on the DVD.
>
>  What I would like to do is use yum to identify all the RPMs I need to
> copy to my DVD.  The things I will have before I start are:
>
>    - A small set of application RPMs
>    - A few OS RPMs (CentOS)
>
> The only way I can think of doing it is to:
>
>    1. Start with my set of application and OS packages/RPMs
>    2. For each package:
>       1. Run "yum deplist" on each one to get the set of providers
>       2. For each dependency:
>          1. If the dependency is not satisfied by one of the packages,
>          then add one of the providers of this dependency to our list of packages
>
> However, this is not something I want to be doing by hand since it could
> take a long time.  Also, I will need to repeat this process every release.
> Thus, I would like to automate this, but when a dependency is provided by
> multiple providers, it will be difficult to write a program to decide which
> one to choose.
>
> While thinking on this problem, I realized that yum must already do this
> to some extent.  After all, when you need to install a new package, yum
> will find all the dependencies and get the packages that provide them
> automatically.
>
> So is there some way for me to get the complete list?  The system I am
> creating this list on already has many packages installed, so using the
> "downloadonly" plugin won't work since it will skip any packages already
> installed, and I need to get all the packages even if they are currently
> installed.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Chris
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