[Freeipa-users] 3.6. Setting up a Linux Client Through Kickstart

[Rob Crittenden]

Dean Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 16:56 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Dean Hunter wrote:
>>> I have been reading manuals (yes, I know that is not fair but I can not
>>> stop myself). It has been about six months since I started working with
>>> FreeIPA and I thought it would be a good idea to see if I understood the
>>> FreeIPA Guide released with Fedora 17 any better now than before I
>>> started.
>>>
>>> I found a section that peaked my interest: 3.6. Setting up a Linux
>>> Client Through Kickstart. Then I checked the Fedora 19 Beta TC4 DVD I am
>>> using and discovered that neither the freeipa-client nor the autofs
>>> packages are included. Is this an oversight or has the objective of
>>> having the FreeIPA client enabled "out of the box" changed?
>>>
>>> Also, is the edition of the manual, 2.2.0, intended to indicate the
>>> FreeIPA version to which the manual corresponds?
>>
>> You can specify additional repos/packages in a kickstart script, they do
>> not need to be included in the ISO.
>>
>> But yes, we're trying to make this easier. There is some limited support
>> for configuring IPA via authconfig, for example.
>>
>> rob
>
> I am sorry, but I must respectfully disagree about specifying packages
> that are not in the ISO. I just tried it:
>
> .
> Starting package installation process
> =========================================================================
> =========================================================================
> Question
>
> You have specified that the package 'freeipa-client' should be
> installed. This package does not exist. Would you like to skip this
> package and continue with installation?
>
> Please respond 'yes' or 'no':
>
>

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

rob