StatelessLinux/CreateImageWithYumGroupInstall

= Stateless Linux - Creating An Image Using Yum's Groupinstall Mode =

See  Stateless Linux HOWTO

This method is quite simple - you create a yum configuration file, do a  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  in the chroot before running the ,   would 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