Hello, all,
Since Fedora Core 4 I've not been able to just install everything.
I would love to just be able to install all available packages for my architecture.
What's the way to do this?
Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is known to work and really get everything?
thanks, greg
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 21:52:10 Gregory Gerard wrote:
Hello, all,
Since Fedora Core 4 I've not been able to just install everything.
I would love to just be able to install all available packages for my architecture.
What's the way to do this?
Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is known to work and really get everything?
thanks, greg
Of course taking into account that not everything will work with everything else... For example sendmail and postfix are not readily or functionally installed at the same time.
Gregory Gerard wrote:
Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is known to work and really get everything?
How about something like this cd /path/to/centos/RPMS/dir rpm -q -p *rpm >/tmp/packages.list
and put the contents of /tmp/packages.list in your kickstart to get everything installed.
Or if you don't want to list the version numbers something like for i in `echo *rpm`; do rpm --queryformat %{NAME} -q -p $i 2>/dev/null;echo "";done | tee /tmp/packages.list
Not that I can think of a good reason to install every package available..
There may be packages that conflict with other packages as well, I've never tried installing everything before.
nate
thanks!
I'll give this a whirl.
At a certain point, I got sick of going into a machine and finding half the diagnostic utilities (and their dependent libraries) weren't installed and that just impeded tracking down the real issues I was having. I'm in no mood to wait and pull down packages (and potentially not install depending on what's going wrong) at 4am.
greg
On Jun 24, 2008, at 7:07 PM, nate wrote:
Gregory Gerard wrote:
Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is known to work and really get everything?
How about something like this cd /path/to/centos/RPMS/dir rpm -q -p *rpm >/tmp/packages.list
and put the contents of /tmp/packages.list in your kickstart to get everything installed.
Or if you don't want to list the version numbers something like for i in `echo *rpm`; do rpm --queryformat %{NAME} -q -p $i 2>/dev/ null;echo "";done | tee /tmp/packages.list
Not that I can think of a good reason to install every package available..
There may be packages that conflict with other packages as well, I've never tried installing everything before.
nate
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Gregory Gerard wrote:
Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is known to work and really get everything?
yum install *
Considering you could be pulling in upto 5,000 pkgs, make sure you have enough drive space, fat network pipe, and lots of time.
Good to know.
Why do you favor yum over kickstart package lists though?
greg
On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Gregory Gerard wrote:
Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is known to work and really get everything?
yum install *
Considering you could be pulling in upto 5,000 pkgs, make sure you have enough drive space, fat network pipe, and lots of time.
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Gregory Gerard wrote:
Good to know.
Why do you favor yum over kickstart package lists though?
greg
On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Gregory Gerard wrote:
Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is known to work and really get everything?
yum install *
Considering you could be pulling in upto 5,000 pkgs, make sure you have enough drive space, fat network pipe, and lots of time.
Mostly since *all* my installs are identical, minimal setups, done over the wire. And I use puppet to later manage the machine, whats installed on there and what the machine is doing. Besides, if the install is over the wire, the number of bits you end up pulling is still the same.
- KB
on 6-24-2008 6:52 PM Gregory Gerard spake the following:
Hello, all,
Since Fedora Core 4 I've not been able to just install everything.
I would love to just be able to install all available packages for my architecture.
What's the way to do this?
Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is known to work and really get everything?
thanks, greg
linux install --really_bad_idea_but_I_don't_care_and_want_to_anyway_because_I_like_ security_challenges_and_I_am_a_glutton_for_punishment ;-P
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