Can't you just point the kickstart files to the local mirror? That way
when you do the install you are grabbing the updated files from the get-go.
I don't have a ton of experience with kickstarting machines and i don't
run a separate kickstart server for anything i have kickstarted.
Alfred von Campe wrote:
On Feb 27, 2007, at 21:06, William Warren wrote:
why not setup your own cent 4.4 repo..have it rsynch with a mirror
which will get the updates for you then you can kickstart to your
internal repo?
Hmm, maybe I am overlooking the obvious. I already have a local CentOS
mirror that I rsync every night. And every couple of weeks or so I do a
"yum -y update" on all my machines, which pull in everything from my
local mirror. But when I kickstart a new machine, it installs the
original CentOS 4.4 bits, and when I do a "yum -y update" it installs
150+ packages.
I want the kickstart process to include those new packages directly, and
for that I would have to modify how things are set up on the kickstart
server. Is it just a matter of copying all the RPMs from the yum mirror
to the kickstart server. If so, which RPMs do I copy? My yum
repository has lots of directories named RPMS:
# find 4.4 -name RPMS
4.4/addons/i386/RPMS
4.4/build/livecd/RPMS
4.4/centosplus/i386/RPMS
4.4/contrib/i386/RPMS
4.4/csgfs/i386/RPMS
4.4/extras/i386/RPMS
4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS
4.4/fasttrack/i386/RPMS
4.4/updates/i386/RPMS
My kickstart server only has one directory name RPMS (if I remember
correctly, I can't access it currently).
Alfred
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