Jon Peatfield said... |If you just want to add extra packages for the install then you can do |that just creating an extra 'yum repo' and pointing the sl5 installer at |it in addition to the standard ones. | |Then either with kickstart or a semi-manual install you get to see the |extra rpms in all the repos you have listed - and you can specify your own |groupings if you care to write a suitable comps xml file... | |Any other customisations can be done by a script (for kickstart) or extra |packages containing the magic (if you want to support manual installs). | |I guess if you want to make custom ISOs you need to arrange to either add |the extra repo into existing ones, ship an extra ISO of your repo or just |point them at a network accessible version. | |Keeping your own repo(s) of extra packages is handy for doing yum updates |from later anyway so you probably need that anyway. | |What else do 'sites' offer?
That's fine until you start using a different version of a package than the vendor uses. Maybe there's a way around that in yum; I haven't really figured yum out yet. Is there a *good* doc on yum out there that explains such things?