Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Feb 28, 2007, at 10:14, Jim Perrin wrote: > >> Without re-rolling the install tree, there isn't much way to >> accomplish building the updates into the installer. > > I guess this confirms that I am not overlooking something obvious, and > that what I am trying to do is "hard". I have a script to do so, except for finding out which rpms are to be updated. would the following approach be ok? - install a system manually, do whatever yum update/remove/install - do rpm -qa to get the list of installed rpms - if they are on the CD, copy them - otherwise, download them > I'll stick with my current method of doing a "yum -y update" in the > kickstart %post, and I may investigate the suggestion of using VMware > snapshots (although that doesn't quite accomplish what I am trying to > do).