[xen-tools-discuss] Re: Installing additional packages with xen-create-image

Alain Kelder ak at bbsmb.net
Tue Nov 25 20:26:36 CET 2008


On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 22:50 -0500, Jeff Forcier wrote:
> I use the roles functionality to write my own scripts which install
> extra packages, it's pretty flexible. I believe I worked off of the
> included role scripts, which served as examples of how to use
> convenience functions for installing e.g. Debian packages directly
> onto the newly created filesystem, stuff like that.
> 

This is perfect, I can't believe I missed that as it is clearly
discussed in "man xen-create-image" and the example scripts
in /etc/xen-tools/role.d should be enough to get me started. RTFM! ;)
Thanks a lot, Jeff, for pointing me in the right direction. It appears
Mr Kemp has thought of everything!








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