He, to install th packages in the %post script is what we want to avoid. We had that in an early RHEL4 installation and it was "working". But now we are quite happy to got rid of it. If there won't be any other possibility, we have do it like this again. Anyway, thank you for your suggestions Peter -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Pablo Iranzo Gómez Sent: Mon 3/10/2008 10:51 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: 3rd Party Package Dependencies Wouldn't that keep the RPM database locked by the package being installed and running %post scripts? Regards Pablo El lun, 10-03-2008 a las 10:40 +0100, Joel Andres Granados escribió: > Seidel Peter wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm currently trying to set up a RHEL5 kickstart installation for our company. > > > > Everything work fine so far, but I have a Problem with the dependencies of 3rd Party Packages(.rpm/closed source) like VMware Player or Vnc-E. The dependencies aren't set probably by the Distributors. Result is, that the Packages, which are running some shell scripts, are getting installed even before Coreutils and that goes terribly wrong. > > > > So, is there any possibility to change the Package installation order, or any other suggestions? > > > > I already tried to make a meta Package, which is an empty package that just have dependencies with coreutils and VMware, than take the Vmware Package out of the kickstart(.ks) file. But it didn't work the VMware still installed too early. > > > > Thank you all in advance > > > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > You can use kickstarts %post section: > > %post > > wget http://path/to/vmware/package.rpm > wget http://path/to/vnc/package.rpm > > rpm -ihv *.rpm > > Just an idea :) -- Pablo Iranzo Gómez (Pablo.Iranzo@xxxxxxxxxx) RHCE/Global Profesional Services Consultant Spain Phone: +34 645 01 01 49 (CET/CEST) GnuPG KeyID: 0xFAD3CF0D --- Dirección Comercial: C/Jose Bardasano Baos, 9, Edif. Gorbea 3, planta 3ºD, 28016 Madrid, Spain Dirección Registrada: Red Hat S.L., C/ Velazquez 63, Madrid 28001, Spain Inscrita en el Reg. Mercantil de Madrid - C.I.F. B82657941
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