Alex Laslavic (Lenox)
2006-Mar-29 16:40 UTC
[CentOS] Method for autoinstalling new updates at install time(or very near to it)
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:26 -0500, Jay Lee wrote:> I have CentOS 4.3 as well as RHEL4u3 and FC5 setup on my PXE/HTTP Server > automating the install process. However, I''d also like to apply any > post update RPMS during installation also. Is there any easy method to > do this with out having to recreate the hdlist and other installation > files? My desire would be to have a updates directory that I can put > packages into and CentOS would check to see if a newer version of the > RPM exists in /updates. Any thoughts?Anaconda seems to exclusively build off of the hdlist, so you would have to rebuild it if you want to come out of the anaconda install with a fully patched system. I do this for Centos4 with no major problems. If you like, I can send you the commands that you need to run to do this. I actually keep a full package respository locally for Centos, and nightly pull down all the updates, and rebuild the hdlist, and yum headers. When I build servers, I use kickstart off of my own repository. 0 -> fully patched centos4 server in 5 - 10 minutes, depending on what is installed =). I then keep servers updated with yum, off of the same repository.> > My goal is to get away from the need to download 200+ megabytes of > updates after each install. I know I could setup my own yum updates > server and then point each new install at that instead of the mirrors > but I wanted something slightly more automated. Can anyone else tell me > how their doing this?If you use kickstart, you can always add a yum -y update in the %post section. You''d still have to download 200MB of data, but at least it would be part of the build.> > Jay > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- *********************************** * Alex Laslavic * Linux Engineer * WorldTravel BTI * x49511 * gpg/pgp key at * http://keys.jumpbox.net *********************************** -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060329/6cd3398c/attachment.bin