CentOS - Sep 2008 - CentOS 5.2 kickstart install with latest updates

Hi,

The CentOS 5.2 release notes contain this warning:
"A kickstart installation that attempts to use the *repo* directive (where
that *repo* points to an updates repository) may fail to properly install."

This is exactly the method that I had been using with CentOS 5.1 :-) What is
the right way to achieve this now? Is adding a repository in the %post
section of the kickstart file and running "yum update" safe? Anyone
run into
problems with this?

Thanks in advance,
Venkat
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Venkatraju wrote:
> Is adding a repository in the %post section of the kickstart file and 
> running "yum update" safe? Anyone run into problems with this?
I am using exactly this method with CentOS 5.2. So far only about 20 
installations, but I have not had a problem with any of them.

Steve

On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 20:44 +0530, Venkatraju wrote:
> This is exactly the method that I had been using with CentOS 5.1 :-)
> What is the right way to achieve this now? Is adding a repository in
> the %post section of the kickstart file and running "yum update"
safe?
> Anyone run into problems with this?
No issues with it so far in my many kickstart installs. It's actually
nicer since I can use yum-priorities to get exactly what I need
installed.

[Worth noting that priorities have been added to the repo directive in
anaconda in later versions]
-- 
Matthew Kent \ SA \ bravenet.com

Venkatraju wrote:
> The CentOS 5.2 release notes contain this warning:
> "A kickstart installation that attempts to use the *repo* directive 
> (where that *repo* points to an updates repository) may fail to properly 
> install."
In some tests we did at 5.2 install time we found that the updates 
failed to register completely, but lots of people seem to report no such 
issues in the wild. So I guess if it works for you, thats fine. Go for it.

- KB