On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:04, Timothy E. Miller wrote: > 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. Check out the treetools stuff. It should help you with merges. I agree - installing the new stuff is easier out of the first install. Though something I'm considering for the future is - especially for servers is: install Core boot system make yum do the rest of the installs that way I can multi-task b/t installations and app configuration. -sv
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