Re: up to date fedora core distribution

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, multiscan wrote:

> 	even a quite fresh fedora distribution ends up having a lot of 
> updates. I wander if it is possible to replace the original rpms in 
> the distribution media (on an nfs server) with their updated versions. 
> When I've tried it did not work. Probably due to problems with the 
> repodata or similar.

Yes, you need to recreate the package metadata which anaconda uses.

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> I've been browsing the mailing list archives looking for a similar
> question but I could not find one. It would also be very nice if there
> were a sort of search engine for the archives.

There is (sort of):
http://www.google.com/search?q=genhdlist+site%3Aredhat.com+inurl%3Akickstart-list


Cheers,
Phil