[CentOS] 5.0: installing everything

Tue May 1 21:13:32 UTC 2007
Benjamin Karhan <simon at pop.psu.edu>

A little birdy told me that Stephen John Smoogen said:

] 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.

that IS the kind of solution that i would have to advocate...
  under the current scenario...
  the only point i was making was that there were zero extra
  steps to accomplish the same thing previously...

B. Karhan
simon at pop.psu.edu
PRI/SSRI Unix Administrator