mouss wrote: > 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). > What I've found that works fairly well is to do the following steps: 1. copy the DVD installation tree from the DVD .iso to a working directory 2. copy available updated RPMS (typically with "rsync") from a mirror site into the CentOS/RPMS directory 3. use the "repomanage.py" utility from the "yum-utils" package to remove superseded RPMs (with the "-o" argument): repomanage.py -o <base>/CentOS/RPMS | xargs rm -f 4. Regenerate the hdlist file on the DVD image (requires the anaconda-runtime package to be installed): /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath CentOS <base> -Greg