Re: FC6 - How to update packages on kickstart server

[Andy Meany <andymeany@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you all for your input.  I used novi to create a patched installation tree.  It was actually quite simple  to do and it worked great!

Eric Sorenson <ahpook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5/10/07, kickstart wrote:
> Eric Sorenson:
> > Actually mrepo (wonderful though it is) does not actually do what the
> > original poster wants.
> > He wants to take the RPMS from the cds and overlay downloaded updates
> > to build a new install tree. Ethan McCallam's 'novi' does this:
> > http://www.exmachinatech.net/01/novi/
>
> Precisely. Which is why I mentioned novi earlier today:)

Yeah, whups, that's what I get for jumping to the end of the thread.
Consider your recommendation seconded ;)

>
> What I am doing (an extension of the suggestion in the OReilly book
> by Ethan McCallum which I also mentioned) is to 1) fetch updates
> from multiple external repos into subdirectories of a new
> ("pre-patch") tree of your base OS, the then 2) run novi on these
> leaving the new prepatched tree with the latest RPMs. You'd then
> point new kickstarts at this prepatched tree.
>
> Of course, some testing would be in order every time you do a major
> upgrade to make sure nothing's suddenly broken.
>
> In my case I'm using CentOS44 so I also have genhdlist running in my
> automation scripts..

Have you had to modify comps.xml as well?

>
> It has worked quite well so far..
>
> -Harold
>
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