I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now actually).
However, I want to save network time at installations. If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS and place them in a directory local on my network, can I just "rpm -U /mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" in my post section?
Assuming I have nfs mounted the directory of course...
Thanks,
Jerry
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now actually).
However, I want to save network time at installations. If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS and place them in a directory local on my network, can I just "rpm -U /mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" in my post section?
If there are kernel updates, that would be bad. Since CentOS5 can have additional repositories specified in kickstarts, why not add a local update repository to the kickstart. Then there's no need for %post updates.
Jerry Geis wrote:
I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing
now actually).
However, I want to save network time at installations. If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS and place
them in a directory local on my network, can I just "rpm -U
/mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" in my post section?
Assuming I have nfs mounted the directory of course...
You can always replace the updated RPMS in the CentOS directory and run createrepo to rebuild the comps.xml and header info so that you do your initial build with the newer files without running yum at all. Ymmv
Eucke
I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now actually).
Maybe a better way to do this...
However, I want to save network time at installations. If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS and place them in a directory local on my network, can I just "rpm -U /mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" in my post section?
If that is the case, then add a repo line in your kickstart, sync an updates repo as you do, it will pull anything it needs that is newer from this repo line.
repo --name=Updates --baseurl=http://foo.example.com/pub/centos/5.3/updates/i386/
Works for me (tm). jlc
Jerry Geis wrote:
I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now actually).
However, I want to save network time at installations. If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS and place them in a directory local on my network, can I just "rpm -U /mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" in my post section?
Assuming I have nfs mounted the directory of course...
I do this, but not over NFS, over HTTP.
I create a repository that has all of the packages I want to update from and have something like this in my %post
(This is for CentOS 5.2, I may go to 5.3 later in the year) cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Update the Linux Kernel ## ############################################################################### EOF rpm -Uvh http://10.1.10.31/updates/centos_5/static/i386/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i68... http://10.1.10.31/updates/cento s_5/static/i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm http://10.1.10.31/updates/centos_5/static/i386/kernel-headers-2.6 .18-92.1.22.el5.i386.rpm
cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Update System RPMS ## ############################################################################### EOF wget -P /tmp -np -q -r http://10.1.10.31/updates/centos_5/kickstart-postinstall/i386/ rpm -Uvh /tmp/10.1.10.31/updates/centos_5/kickstart-postinstall/i386/*rpm rm -rfv /tmp/10.1.10.31
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I've been using this method for a couple years now and works good for me.
nate
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