Les Mikesell wrote: > Tronn Wærdahl wrote: > >> >> Even better for community support would be to package the above >> programs >> as rpms if they aren't already available that way and add your >> configuration script(s). That way any or all of the parts could be >> installed into existing machines. >> >> >> Yes, but my intention was more like to make a appliance. Install on a >> clean system, have it installed on a box, and just put a away in a >> corner > > That works until one of the programs has an update. Then if it hasn't > been packaged like the rest of the system you'll have to throw your > appliance away and build a new one. If it has been packaged, a simple > "yum update" takes care of things whether its in the centos repository > or some external one added to the yum configuration. Then look at the Trixbox project. It has a install CD to download. Then once installed, you do the yum -y update and hit the Centos and Trixbox repos....