On Saturday 28 May 2011 06:03:19 Steven Crothers wrote: > You'll have to edit your repos in the %post section of your ks. The > repos are provided by centos-release iirc. > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > When I am installing I use kickstart and have a line like: > > repo --name=Updates > > --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/ > > and that works great for installing the OS. > > > > After that the machine reboots and I have it automatically go into > > additional installations running scripts. > > These installations do "yum install XXX". > > However, its no longer using my above repo its using the mirrorlist (as > > expected). > > > > My questions are : > > > > 1) I dont see a way in yum to say "use this repo to install", is there a > > way to point to my server in the office > > and dont do the mirrorlist. > > > > 2) Do I just drop a file called CentOS-office in the /etc/yum.repos.d > > directory > > that looks like this and it will be used first instead of the mirrorlist: > > > > > > [base] > > name=CentOS-$releasever - Base > > mirrorlist=http://192.168.1.14/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=o > > s #baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ > > gpgcheck=1 > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 > > > > #released updates > > [updates] > > name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates > > mirrorlist=http://192.168.1.14/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=u > > pdates #baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > > gpgcheck=1 > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 > > > > > > > > I dont want to mess anything up and I want additional package installs > > in the office to go faster > > in the office. I can remove the file when I am done installing. > > > > Is there a better way or is this the way to do it? > > > > jerry Actually Steven is wrong. You can do yum install --disablerepo http://192.168.1.14/..../package.rpm But I agree with Steven, that the best way is to fix your repos in the post section. Marian -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110528/c53b79e9/attachment-0005.sig>