CentOS - Jun 2008 - How to install *all* packages via kickstart?

Hello, all,

Since Fedora Core 4 I've not been able to just install everything.

I would love to just be able to install all available packages for my  
architecture.

What's the way to do this?

Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is  
known to work and really get everything?

thanks,
greg

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 21:52:10 Gregory Gerard wrote:
> Hello, all,
>
> Since Fedora Core 4 I've not been able to just install everything.
>
> I would love to just be able to install all available packages for my
> architecture.
>
> What's the way to do this?
>
> Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is
> known to work and really get everything?
>
> thanks,
> greg

Of course taking into account that not everything will work with everything 
else... For example sendmail and postfix are not readily or functionally 
installed at the same time. 



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Bobby

Gregory Gerard wrote:
> Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is
> known to work and really get everything?
How about something like this
cd /path/to/centos/RPMS/dir
rpm -q -p *rpm >/tmp/packages.list

and put the contents of /tmp/packages.list in your kickstart to
get everything installed.

Or if you don't want to list the version numbers something like
for i in `echo *rpm`; do rpm --queryformat %{NAME} -q -p $i 2>/dev/null;echo
"";done | tee /tmp/packages.list

Not that I can think of a good reason to install every package available..

There may be packages that conflict with other packages as well, I've
never tried installing everything before.

nate

Gregory Gerard wrote:
> Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is 
> known to work and really get everything?
yum install \*

Considering you could be pulling in upto 5,000 pkgs, make sure you have 
enough drive space, fat network pipe, and lots of time.

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on 6-24-2008 6:52 PM Gregory Gerard spake the following:
> Hello, all,
> 
> Since Fedora Core 4 I've not been able to just install everything.
> 
> I would love to just be able to install all available packages for my 
> architecture.
> 
> What's the way to do this?
> 
> Does someone have a list I can place in the packages section which is 
> known to work and really get everything?
> 
> thanks,
> greg
linux install 
--really_bad_idea_but_I_don't_care_and_want_to_anyway_because_I_like_ 
security_challenges_and_I_am_a_glutton_for_punishment
  ;-P



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