We are usually installing Linux on our office workstations via a FTP
install tree with a slightly modified version of the Red Hat tree. I've
added a few files to RedHat/RPMS, updated RedHat/base/comps to suit our
needs, and created new hdlists using "genhdlist" from anaconda-runtime.
Now, I've run a lot of successful installations from my setup, but often
when I make a change, I make some kind of mistake or something
inexplicable happens so that the installation fails, usually with "keyword
error". I then have to modify comps, contents RPMS of and/or hdlists, and
start the install all over again, often only to find out that I need to
make yet another change. This is a very time consuming process, especially
since the installer won't check the file list until one of the very last
steps before the package installations starts.
Is there a better way? What I really want is of course a more robust
installer (i.e. one that doesn't give up completely when it fails to find
a single package that I may not even want), but apart from that: Is there
a utility that will check if the install tree is consistent, a way to tell
the installer to do its tests before completing all other steps or
something like that?
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