Jake Vickers <jake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Thanks, but I want to avoid having to manually delete the old versions, as you say it's tedious, and too error-prone - I've seen tools mentioned to help with that, but would like to find a way to avoid it in the first place. The kickstart repo specification, or reposync method, mentioned by others in this thread might be the way to go. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
