kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Oct 8 21:22:24 UTC 2009


gary artim wrote:
> I have a pxe/kickstart config that uses the install DVD image as the
> image to install over the net machines on a specific subnet. My
> question is if there is an automated way I could update the Package
> directory to the most current (ie patched) rpm's? I'd like to do
> this in a way that will continue to work well with Fedora repo
> methods.  Thanks for any feedback!

You should be able to add the updates repo to the kickstart file and
have the install use it.  Something like:

repo --name=updates --baseurl=http://example.com/path/to/updates

You can use --mirrorlist instead of --baseurl if you like.  For more
detail, see:

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart

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