kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

[Tait Clarridge]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:24 -0700, gary artim wrote:
> sure if anaconda and pxe would work ok. Have you used this method --
> small bit about this is that I'd like to plug any machine into the
> switch and have it up in about 10min.
> I have it work on some old/slow machines. Now I'd like to have it
> install the OS/apply patches to get it current/and apply other code.
> I'm happy it works so well...(clap clap Fedora)...
> but i'm pretty dumb about mirroring a repo and such. So  question:
> 
> will kickstart handle the updates?

All you need to do is look at the %post section of the kickstart file

For example: 

%post

/usr/bin/yum -y update >> /root/post_install_update.log 2>&1

This will update the system without you having to do anything and log
what it has done for your viewing pleasure.
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