On Sunday 28 March 2004 10:27 am, Hubertus Haniel wrote:

Is the rpm part of your installation source and did you recreate the package database using /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_package_descr?

Yep, via a symlink: //suse/i386/8.1/suse/i386/k_smp_vanilla-2.4.25-1.i386.rpm -> ../../../custom/8.1/k_smp_vanilla-2.4.25-1.i386.rpm I am able to install it from yast2 once the install process is over, but of course would prefer to avoid the extra reboot. Any other suggestions? Thanks kindly, Ben

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Benjamin P Myers wrote:

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:39:06 -0600 From: Benjamin P Myers To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] custom kernel

Hi,

I'm having a little trouble getting autoyast to install the desired kernel. I've compiled and packaged 'k_smp_vanilla' and 'k_deflt_vanilla' and would like to install them instead of the stock stuff, but it installs k_smp instead. I'm using autoyast2-2.6.41-3 on SuSE 8.1. Here's the section from my config:

<software> <base>Minimal</base> <kernel>k_smp_vanilla</kernel> <packages config:type="list"> <package>compat</package> <package>apt</package> <package>cfengine</package> <package>xntp</package> </packages> </software>

I'd like to avoid using a chroot script to do this, if possible. Any help would be appreciated.

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 06:02 am, Frank Steiner wrote:

And does an entry for k_smp_vanilla indeed show up in the ../suse/setup/descr/packages file on your installation source?

It does. I've pasted it in at the end of the email. Since rpm created it as an i386 rpm i created another directory in i386/8.1/suse: /ftp/pub/suse/i386/8.1/suse # ls . .. i386 i586 i686 noarch nosrc setup src the k_smp_vanilla rpm is in i386. For kicks I tried a chroot script: <chroot-scripts config:type="list"/> <script> <filename>kernel</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source> <![CDATA[#!/bin/sh /bin/rpm -e k_smp /bin/rpm -e k_deflt /sbin/yast2 sw_single install k_smp_vanilla ]]> </source> </script> The script itself works fine after the install has finished, but for some reason it didn't run during the install. I couldn't find any log files that suggested it had run, and k_smp was still installed. Thanks, -Ben ##---------------------------------------- =Pkg: k_smp_vanilla 2.4.25 1 i386 +Req: /sbin/mkinitrd /bin/cp /bin/sed /bin/touch /bin/awk /bin/sh -Req: +Prq: /sbin/mkinitrd /bin/cp /bin/sed /bin/touch /bin/awk /bin/sh -Prq: +Prv: k_smp_24 k_smp_22 kernel -Prv: +Obs: k_smp_24 k_smp_22 -Obs: =Grp: System/Kernel =Lic: GPL =Src: k_smp_vanilla 2.4.25 1 src =Tim: 1080424615 =Loc: 1 k_smp_vanilla-2.4.25-1.i386.rpm =Siz: 13161313 27403388 ##----------------------------------------