On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:26 -0500, Jay Lee wrote:

I have CentOS 4.3 as well as RHEL4u3 and FC5 setup on my PXE/HTTP Server automating the install process. However, I'd also like to apply any post update RPMS during installation also. Is there any easy method to do this with out having to recreate the hdlist and other installation files? My desire would be to have a updates directory that I can put packages into and CentOS would check to see if a newer version of the RPM exists in /updates. Any thoughts?

Anaconda seems to exclusively build off of the hdlist, so you would have to rebuild it if you want to come out of the anaconda install with a fully patched system. I do this for Centos4 with no major problems. If you like, I can send you the commands that you need to run to do this.

I actually keep a full package respository locally for Centos, and nightly pull down all the updates, and rebuild the hdlist, and yum headers. When I build servers, I use kickstart off of my own repository. 0 -> fully patched centos4 server in 5 - 10 minutes, depending on what is installed =). I then keep servers updated with yum, off of the same repository.

My goal is to get away from the need to download 200+ megabytes of updates after each install. I know I could setup my own yum updates server and then point each new install at that instead of the mirrors but I wanted something slightly more automated. Can anyone else tell me how their doing this?

If you use kickstart, you can always add a yum -y update in the %post section. You'd still have to download 200MB of data, but at least it would be part of the build.

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