On 27/05/2011 16:22, Jerry Geis 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: I do this in %post (along with installs for our standard extras) wget -q -O - http://path/to/my/repo/file.repo | cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo That way, when updates to centos-release happen I keep my config and end up with a CentOS-Base.repo.rpmnew which I can merge if required. D