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
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@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 :
- 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.
- 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Saturday 28 May 2011 06:03:19 Steven Crothers wrote:
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@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 :
- 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.
- 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=$basearch&repo=o s #baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/$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=u pdates #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
Actually Steven is wrong. You can do
yum install --disablerepo http://192.168.1.14/..../package.rpm
But I agree with Steven, that the best way is to fix your repos in the post section.
Marian
Marian,
He wanted to disable default repos and enable his private mirror instead. Your solution would actually not help him. He wants to make his personal repo the primary repo for fresh installs, which can only be done in %post since centos-release is going to overwrite it. Using --disablerepo on a non-existent repo (the problem being expressed) wouldn't work in this case.
Of course another option is to download the centos-release srpm, and change the repos built in, or remove the repos entirely and make it rely on your-repos.rpm or similar. That's probably a little over the top for what you're looking for though.
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Marian Marinov mm@yuhu.biz wrote:
On Saturday 28 May 2011 06:03:19 Steven Crothers wrote:
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@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 :
- 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.
- 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=$basearch&repo=o s #baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/$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=u pdates #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
Actually Steven is wrong. You can do
yum install --disablerepo http://192.168.1.14/..../package.rpm
But I agree with Steven, that the best way is to fix your repos in the post section.
Marian
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Steven Crothers wrote:
Marian,
He wanted to disable default repos and enable his private mirror instead. Your solution would actually not help him. He wants to make his personal repo the primary repo for fresh installs, which can only be done in %post since centos-release is going to overwrite it. Using --disablerepo on a non-existent repo (the problem being expressed) wouldn't work in this case.
Of course another option is to download the centos-release srpm, and change the repos built in, or remove the repos entirely and make it rely on your-repos.rpm or similar. That's probably a little over the top for what you're looking for though.
He can also set exclude=centos-release somewhere (never played with kikstarts) and install his own release file, or just yum repolist file with his data.
I created several release files and even created small script that backups existing and installs one of several sets of repo files.
Ljubomir
On 27/05/2011 16:22, Jerry Geis 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 :
- 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.
- 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:
I do this in %post (along with installs for our standard extras)
wget -q -O - http://path/to/my/repo/file.repo | cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
That way, when updates to centos-release happen I keep my config and end up with a CentOS-Base.repo.rpmnew which I can merge if required.
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