Adding update repos to ks.cfg
Ray Van Dolson
rvandolson at esri.com
Fri Aug 17 14:39:27 UTC 2007
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:34:09PM -0700, Michael wrote:
> I have been using kickstart for a while to do my builds. I follow up
> with yum on the first boot to bring everything up to date.
>
> Today, I started to ask myself why can't I point the installer to the
> install DVD image and updates repo at the same time and install the
> newest packages without having to do an update. It seems to work, but I
> am concerned this might be risky somehow.
>
> I added something like:
>
> repo --name localupdates --baseurl=http://my.webserver.com/updates
>
> in my ks.cfg
>
> Is this an ok or safe thing to do? I just hate installing 300 packages
> and then having to update 200 because of new package release.
>
> I know I could update my install tree to include the new packages, but
> if there is any easier way...
I wasn't aware of this parameter. What distros have an anaconda that
supports this?
Ray
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