asterisk users - Jan 2009 - Using centos and kickstart to build a minimum installation

Using centos 5.2,

I want to use a kickstart file to select packages in order to have an 
unattended install onto a bare-metal server.

Is there any way of finding out which packages I need to compile, build 
and run asterisk ?

I generally want to build all modules in asterisk and the wct4xxp zaptel module

I want to be able to not select any groups in the kickstart file, but 
only select individual packages so as to minimise the footprint and 
installation time  ;) 

Anyone done anything similar before that would care to share ?

Julian


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On 20 Jan 2009, at 20:58, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
> Using centos 5.2,
>
> I want to use a kickstart file to select packages in order to have an
> unattended install onto a bare-metal server.
>
> Is there any way of finding out which packages I need to compile,  
> build
> and run asterisk ?
>
> I generally want to build all modules in asterisk and the wct4xxp  
> zaptel module
>
> I want to be able to not select any groups in the kickstart file, but
> only select individual packages so as to minimise the footprint and
> installation time  ;)
>
> Anyone done anything similar before that would care to share ?
Just strip down trixbox / pbx in a flash etc.

Should give you a fairly good idea.

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
> Using centos 5.2,
> 
> I want to use a kickstart file to select packages in order to have an
> unattended install onto a bare-metal server.
I started (but have not finished) a live pen drive install. I've snipped out
some bits specific to this project, but you're welcome to crib off it.

#
#	Filename:	example.ks
#
#	Version:	000
#
#	Edit date:	2008-06-11
#
#	Facility:	example.com
#
#	Abstract:	This kickstart script creates the CD image.
#
#	Environment:	Unix, sh
#
#	Author:		Steven L. Edwards
#
#	Modified by
#
#	000	2008-06-11	SLE	Create.

 	lang				en_US.UTF-8
 	keyboard			us
 	network				--bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0
 	network				--bootproto=dhcp --device=eth1
 	rootpw				example
 	firewall			--enabled --port=22:tcp
 	authconfig			--enablemd5 --enableshadow
 	selinux				--disabled
 	timezone			--utc America/Los_Angeles

# US english
# US keyboard
# use DHCP to set up networking
# set the password for root
# disable the firewall
# use MD5 and shadow passwords

# list the repositories
 	repo --name=base --baseurl=http://localhost/yum/base
 	repo --name=extras
--baseurl=http://ftp.telus.net/pub/centos/5/extras/$basearch
 	repo --name=live
--baseurl=http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/$basear
ch/live
 	repo --name=updates --baseurl=http://localhost/yum/updates
#	repo --name=base
--baseurl=http://ftp.telus.net/pub/centos/5/os/$basearch
#	repo --name=base
--baseurl=http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/os/$basearch
#	repo --name=extras
--baseurl=http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/extras/$basearch
#	repo --name=updates
--baseurl=http://ftp.telus.net/pub/centos/5/updates/$basearch
#	repo --name=updates
--baseurl=http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/updates/$basearch

# packages
 	%packages
 	authconfig
 	bash
 	chkconfig
 	comps-extras
 	kernel
 	passwd
 	policycoreutils
 	rootfiles
 	syslinux
 	xkeyboard-config

# more packages
 	dhcdbd
 	dhclient
 	dhcp
 	emacs-nox
 	lynx
 	mailx
 	memtest86+
 	ntp
 	openssh
 	openssh-clients
 	openssh-server
 	wget

 	%post
echo Post package customization in chroot
 	PATH=$PATH:/sbin/

# housekeeping
 	TIMESTAMP=$(date +"Created by example.ks on %F at %T")

# clean up install
 	rm --force /root/.cshrc
 	rm --force /root/.tcshrc

echo Configuring the timezone
 	(
 	printf "# %s\n\n" "$TIMESTAMP"
 	printf "\tARC=false\n"
 	printf "\tUTC=true\n"
 	printf "\tZONE=\"America/Los_Angeles\"\n"
 	printf "\n# (end of /etc/sysconfig/clock)\n"
 	) >/etc/sysconfig/clock
 	cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
 	chmod u=rw,g=r,o=r /etc/localtime

echo Configuring syslogging
 	(
 	printf "# %s\n\n" "$TIMESTAMP"
 	printf "# log everything to messages\n"
 	printf "\t*.*\t\t\t\t/var/log/messages\n"
 	printf "\n# (end of /etc/syslog.conf)\n"
 	) >/etc/syslog.conf

echo Configure networking
 	(
 	printf "# %s\n\n" "$TIMESTAMP"
#	printf "\tDOMAIN=${DOMAINNAME}\n"
#	printf "\tGATEWAY=${GATEWAY}\n"
 	printf "\tHOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain\n"
 	printf "\tNETWORKING=yes\n"
 	printf "\tNETWORKING_IPV6=no\n"
 	printf "\n# (end of /etc/sysconfig/network)\n"
 	) >/etc/sysconfig/network

echo Configure ntp
 	(
 	printf "# %s\n\n" "$TIMESTAMP"
 	printf "\t0.pool.ntp.org\n"
 	printf "\t1.pool.ntp.org\n"
 	printf "\t2.pool.ntp.org\n"
 	printf "\t3.pool.ntp.org\n"
 	printf "\n# (end of /etc/ntp/step-tickers)\n"
 	) >/etc/ntp/step-tickers
 	chkconfig --add ntpd
 	chkconfig --level 2345 ntpd on

echo Link for using emacs as edit
 	rm --force /usr/local/bin/edit
 	ln --symbolic /usr/bin/emacs-nox /usr/local/bin/edit

 	%post --nochroot
echo Post package customization not in chroot
 	PATH=$PATH:/sbin/

 	PROJECT_DIR=/home/sedwards/example.com/
 	cp ${PROJECT_DIR}/bashrc ${INSTALL_ROOT}/etc/
 	cp ${PROJECT_DIR}/emacs ${INSTALL_ROOT}/root/.emacs
 	cp ${PROJECT_DIR}/asterisk.tar.gz ${INSTALL_ROOT}/root/

 	%post
echo Post package customization in chroot
 	PATH=$PATH:/sbin/

 	tar\
 		--gzip\
 		--directory /\
 		--extract\
 		--file /root/asterisk.tar.gz\
 		${END_OF_LIST}

 	chkconfig --add asterisk
 	chkconfig --add zaptel

# this is where --shell kicks in -- at the end of the ks

# (end of example.ks)

Thanks in advance,
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Edwards      sedwards at sedwards.com      Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST
Newline                                             Fax: +1-760-731-3000

>
> Anyone done anything similar before that would care to share ?
>
Here is a snippet of our standard ks file for automated installs:


%packages --nobase
@core
sendmail
sendmail-cf
ntp
vixie-cron
crontabs
at
logrotate
telnet
bind-utils
lsof
wget
which
unzip
man
bc
nc
sharutils

# Up till now, just regular unix tools -- useful in a running system, not really
# required for running / building asterisk...

# The packages needed to build asterisk follow

gcc
ncurses-devel
libtermcap-devel
kernel-devel
gcc-c++
openssl-devel
newt-devel
zlib-devel
make
unixODBC-devel
libtool-ltdl-devel
sox

# sox is obviously "not needed" and unixODBC-devel +
libtool-ltdl-devel allowed us
# to have the ODBC funcs in asterisk... I'm not really sure why c++ is
there, I wouldn't
# say it's needed.

# Then, for mISDN we still have:

# needed For mISDN
flex
usbutils

Cheers,
--
exvito