What is hard in CentOS-3 and CentOS-4 (roll in updates as part of the install) will be much easier in EL5. The anaconda there uses yum to do the installs and it is as easy as pointing to the proper updates repo to do this in EL5. So ... you will be able to do this soon :P
Superb. FWIW, I wanted to do exactly what the original poster asked about - install all the latest RPMs from the start to save the time of installing a package that would be immediately replaced in the %post phase. This thread tells me where to look if I want to pursue that further. The other tactic I was considering is one a collegue of mine uses, just install the bare minimum during kickstart and then have our configuration manager (cfengine) install all the rest of the packages after the first reboot. That would make my total install time faster - but would involve a fair amount of effort on my part to change where I specify packages for my different server classes. Since I don't have a lot of machines and don't reinstall them very often, I decided it wasn't worth the hassle. -- Cynthia Kiser cynthia.kiser@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
