[CentOS] 5.0: installing everything

Tue May 1 20:53:22 UTC 2007
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On 5/1/07, Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Benjamin Karhan wrote:
>
> > i, for one, would have been satisfied with an:
> >               "everything from the Base respository"
> >  option... which would have included all the packages from the Base repo...
> > basically, the what i wanted fulfilled was something approaching
> >  the same "final product" as "Everything" from the 4.x series installer...
>
> Go to a C4 box with an @Everything install and run
> rpm -qa --queryformat='%{name}\n' > everything.txt
>
> stuff that in %packages on C5 kickstart, install, clean up errors..etc
>

or go into the RPM directory on the dvd and do a

(for x in $(ls -1 *rpm); do
  rpm --qf='%{name}\n' -qf $x
done) | sort | uniq > everything.txt

add that to the kickstart and punt.

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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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