[CentOS] Kickstart with all the latest updates?

[Drew Weaver]

So why not just put yum -y update in the %post section of the kickstart?

-Drew 

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of William Warren
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:25 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kickstart with all the latest updates?

Can't you just point the kickstart files to the local mirror?  That way
when you do the install you are grabbing the updated files from the
get-go.

I don't have a ton of experience with kickstarting machines and i don't
run a separate kickstart server for anything i have kickstarted.

Alfred von Campe wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2007, at 21:06, William Warren wrote:
> 
>> why not setup your own cent 4.4 repo..have it rsynch with a mirror 
>> which will get the updates for you then you can kickstart to your 
>> internal repo?
> 
> Hmm, maybe I am overlooking the obvious.  I already have a local 
> CentOS mirror that I rsync every night.  And every couple of weeks or 
> so I do a "yum -y update" on all my machines, which pull in everything

> from my local mirror.  But when I kickstart a new machine, it installs

> the original CentOS 4.4 bits, and when I do a "yum -y update" it 
> installs
> 150+ packages.
> 
> I want the kickstart process to include those new packages directly, 
> and for that I would have to modify how things are set up on the 
> kickstart server.  Is it just a matter of copying all the RPMs from 
> the yum mirror to the kickstart server.  If so, which RPMs do I copy?

> My yum repository has lots of directories named RPMS:
> 
>   # find 4.4 -name RPMS
>   4.4/addons/i386/RPMS
>   4.4/build/livecd/RPMS
>   4.4/centosplus/i386/RPMS
>   4.4/contrib/i386/RPMS
>   4.4/csgfs/i386/RPMS
>   4.4/extras/i386/RPMS
>   4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS
>   4.4/fasttrack/i386/RPMS
>   4.4/updates/i386/RPMS
> 
> My kickstart server only has one directory name RPMS (if I remember 
> correctly, I can't access it currently).
> 
> Alfred
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