> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 06:49, seth vidal wrote: >> >> It would be hard to do in the installer. If you really want to speed >> along. Install the smallest possible set of pkgs via kickstart, then >> do the rest in %post w/yum. >> >> -sv > > We do a combination of that (small initial package set) and we keep a > modified redhat distribution with the updates integrated (as well as a > couple extra packages). This can make a huge difference when there are > many updates to be applied... I do the same thing, with a really pared down comps.xml. How are people installing yum? I'm currently manually listing the RPM's that need to be installed, including yum dependencies. But this is a handful of packages to specify, is there any better way?
