[CentOS] local repo

[Steven Crothers]

You'll have to edit your repos in the %post section of your ks. The
repos are provided by centos-release iirc.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I am installing I use kickstart and have a line like:
>    repo --name=Updates
> --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/
> and that works great for installing the OS.
>
> After that the machine reboots and I have it automatically go into
> additional installations running scripts.
> These installations do "yum install XXX".
> However, its no longer using my above repo its using the mirrorlist (as
> expected).
>
> My questions are :
>
> 1) I dont see a way in yum to say "use this repo to install", is there a
> way to point to my server in the office
> and dont do the mirrorlist.
>
> 2) Do I just drop a file called CentOS-office in the /etc/yum.repos.d
> directory
> that looks like this and it will be used first instead of the mirrorlist:
>
>
> [base]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
> mirrorlist=http://192.168.1.14/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
> #baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>
> #released updates
> [updates]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
> mirrorlist=http://192.168.1.14/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
> #baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>
>
>
> I dont want to mess anything up and I want additional package installs
> in the office to go faster
> in the office. I can remove the file when I am done installing.
>
> Is there a better way or is this the way to do it?
>
> jerry
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