The problem with this is that the number of updates for RH7.3 are getting to be rather large. It is no longer a few % of the install time to update the packages in %post...more like 25-50% or so, or if you installed (almost) everything in the base install, then updating could double your install time. Merging the updates into the hdlist (even if you did it a month or two ago) and *then* updating your system in %post (by yum or autoupdate or whatever) will save a LOT of time. -Tim On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 11:45, Andrew M. Williams wrote: > What I've done is used ftpcopy from a local updates mirror, dumped those > files into a web accessible directory, and pointed yum at it. > > Then on the freshly built machine I run yum update to grab all of the > updated packages. (I have to run an after boot script anyway for vmware > patching and tripwire init) You may be able to stuff this near the end > of your %post section. > > - andrew > > > yum is available at http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/ > > yum will run nightly to keep the local machine in sync with the update > tree. I would recommend _NOT_ doing kernel upgrades this way. (I tried > it and it broke my test box, I didn't spend much time debugging it) > > > Derek Vadala wrote: > > Is there an easy way of integrating rpm files from the updates tree into > > the main distribution tree? I could write some Perl to do this, but I > > don't want to reinvent the wheel. It's also a bit of a pain because there > > isn't really a standard naming scheme (though there are a minimum of > > deviations. > > > > I've googled a bit for this, but it seems like everyone out there has > > avoided automating this part. > > > > -- > > Derek Vadala, derek@xxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Timothy E. Miller voice: (336)758-3257 Parallel Computing Systems Administrator fax: (336)758-7127 Wake Forest University cell: (336)782-6987 Computer Science, Information Systems, Public Health Sciences ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
