[CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?
Manuel Wolfshant
wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Fri Jul 22 14:11:37 EDT 2011
On 07/22/2011 07:01 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 09:51 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> >> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/KickStart
> >>
> >> Does anyone on this list have write access to that Wiki page? Since it's
> >> the #1 google search result for "centos kickstart", it'd be ideal to
> >> have it linked from there.
> > Enjoy.
>
> Thanks Manuel, I'm sure this will be of help to many folks!!
>
> One suggestion -- when I deployed the ks-minimalC6.cfg, there were still
> some -firmware packages that got installed and were not removed by the
> kickstart process. I noticed that you explicitly remove various firmware
> packages by name with the '-' notation. Another approach would be to
> remove them all programmatically in a %post section, like this:
>
> %post
> rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep -i \\-firmware | grep -v kernel-firmware)
>
> That way, you don't have to specify each one by hand, and have to keep
> track of them if a new one shows up in a future release. It also makes
> the kickstart file smaller. It's unlikely that an RPM that matches
> "-firmware" is going to be relevant to a VM, so it seems like a fairly
> safe approach. Just a suggestion.
The kickstart is intended to create images which can also run on
real iron, including those with "real" storage ( brocade, qlogic etc ).
Therefore the firmware is left there on purpose.
As of removing the firmware in %post: yes, it is one way to do it.
But I find it awkward to install something just to remove it seconds later.
As of ks file size: who cares ? You create it once and use it as
many times as needed. An extra dozen or hundreds of bytes / couple of
lines are not significant in this context
And last but not least: You can always tweak the ks to fit your
specific needs. This one is meant for an _almost_ minimal but yet
general context. If you really want to go "minimal" there are at least
other 5 packages that can be removed ( but this will, of course, remove
some of the functionality , such as processing delta updates or selinux
). If you want to go this road, even yum itself can be removed.
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