Fedora 7 and enabling updates repositories at install time

Jeffrey C. Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Tue Jan 9 18:05:58 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:50 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> I just remembered what the problem was with FC6+updates.  With FC6, the 
> content from the extra repos gets installed after the content from the 
> CD/DVD/NFS base repo.  Since your updates would replace the packages from 
> these repos, you get into nasty install problems where you need something 
> from one of these repos before the next thing from your base repo.

Hmm... it could be because I was doing relatively minimal "server"
installs, but I didn't see any evidence of this.  I'll attach the
(sanitized) kickstart file that I've been using.

Jeff

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url --url http://<localmirror>/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/
repo --name=extras --baseurl=http://<localmirror>/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/
repo --name=updates --baseurl=http://<localmirror>/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
skipx
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rootpw --iscrypted <password>
firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc America/Chicago
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=xvda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=xvda
part pv.3 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=xvda
volgroup myhostname --pesize=32768 pv.3
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=myhostname --size=1024
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=myhostname --size=512
logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --name=tmp --vgname=myhostname --size=1024
logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=usr --vgname=myhostname --size=2048
logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=home --vgname=myhostname --size=1024
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=var --vgname=myhostname --size=2048

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