Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond wants to install Systems from DVD :
the list of packages to be installed has to include a base-package, otherwise installation will not work at all. I have now:
<software> <base>Minimal</base>
Problem is, that i have to install systems with sendmail rather than postfix, but i cannot remove postfix from the list of packages to be installed,
You could try to deinstall unwanted packages in a post-installscript: Something like this should work (mmh, at least in autoyast for Suse8.0 it should work with this syntax, haven't done scripts with newer versions): <post-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <filename>delete-unwanted-pakets</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source> <![CDATA[ # delete unwanted rpm pakets rpm -e postfix ]]> </source> </script> </post-scripts>
Well, i found out that i can change the description of the minimal base, but I got no way to modify a file on a DVD - my primary source of Installation. There should be a simpler solution other than buying a DVD-Recorder... ;-)
Hmm, if you install systems with sendmail - are these servers or workstations? If it is a lean server installation, the needed packages probably will fit on a CD-Rom - so the solution gets cheaper since you can use a CD-Recorder .. (You'll have some fun in repacking the stuff but it *should* work) Or you might think about doing it via NFS or other supported network protocoll, since that works very nice and you can make your own base-package descriptions. (If you have somewhere a network and enough discspace - why not?) Just my two pfennige^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h groschen^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h cents .. Hella Breitkopf - who does it all via NFS