On 10/01/2010 01:50 AM, whitivery wrote:
I have a kickstart server with the files copied from the CentOS 5.5 DVD's "CentOS" directory to a "CentOS" directory on the server, accessed by ftp during kickstart. On a target built by this system, I did a yum update, and over 100 packages were updated. I would like to merge the updates back to the kickstart server. But I don't see a simple way to just throw the *.rpm files (as grabbed from yum's cache) into some "updates" directory and the kickstart will do the right thing and resolve dependencies and install the latest. I would rather the updates just get installed in the first place, instead of having to take a second pass to do some kind of yum update method. Is there an elegant way?
I usually do an install into a VM from my ISO, enable the yum cache, and then perform an update. Once that is complete, I gzip the updates and get them back onto my build machine. This process is a little tedious, but you copy the updates into the package folder for your ISO build and then delete the old versions that are in there. Then just run:
rm -rf /ISO-Build-Dir/.olddata discinfo=`head -1 /ISO-Build-Dir/.discinfo` createrepo -u “media://$discinfo” -g repodata/comps.xml /ISO-Build-Dir _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
