Johnny Hughes wrote:
If you are trying to make a reconfigurable install (and not redistribute an OS) what you really need to look at is kickstart installs. You can use kickstart installs to automate installs with no user interaction at all. You can kickstart in things from other local repos (and not just the centos ones) with the proper setup.
Has anyone written a program that will clone the package set that has been installed on an existing machine either by generating a kickstart file or 'yum install' commands to reproduce the package list (and the configured set of yum repos)? I'd like to be able do a very minimal install on new machines, then after the network and yum are working, tell it to become 'like' an existing setup that may have gotten that way over some period of time and experimentation without much thought about the actual package list. Personally I'd rather have something like that with one or more canned lists than your single-CD server install since you usually have to update and replace many packages immediately after an install anyway. Providing a seriously minimal install and a command to install the list of packages that you consider the 'server' set would give the same result with the install-list-of-packages command (mostly) replacing the initial update. That way, all you need is something to generate the list-of-packages from an existing machine and you can install anything just as easily as the dedicated server.
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