StatelessLinux/CreateImageWithYumGroupInstall
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Stateless Linux - Creating An Image Using Yum's Groupinstall Mode
This method is quite simple - you create a yum configuration file, do a groupinstall and clean up yum's cache:
$> mkdir -p yum-tmproot/var/log $> cat > tmp-yum.conf << EOF [main] gpgcheck=0 reposdir= [repository] name=foo baseurl=http://172.31.0.4/rawhide-latest/x86_64 EOF $> yum -c tmp-yum.conf --installroot $(pwd)/yum-tmproot groupinstall core base $> yum -c tmp-yum.conf --installroot $(pwd)/yum-tmproot clean all
Finally, create an ext3 filesystem image and copy the contents of the chroot into the image, as described in Stateless Linux Create Image With Anaconda Rootpath .
Notes:
- If you don't create
var/login the chroot before running thegroupinstall,yum-2.9.3-2would fail with:
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/logginglevels.py", line 132, in doLoggingSetup
logging.getLogger("yum").critical(_('Cannot open logfile %s'), logfile)
NameError: global name '_' is not defined
This is fixed in yum-2.9.4
