yum in kickstart %post and HP Insight Mgr

[Ugo Bellavance]

Brian Long a écrit :
> I'm trying to use yum in the %post section of kickstart.  With well-
> written RPMs, this works great.  However, I've come across the lovely HP
> Insight Manager RPMS (hpasm, hprsm, etc) which seem to run "service
> hpasm start" during the RPM postinstall (yuck).  This wouldn't be too
> bad if the daemons actually disassociated from the running terminal.  
> 
> I notice yum install the group "yum groupinstall Insight-Manager" and
> yum exits, but the rest of the kickstart %post doesn't run.  If I look
> at the hpasmd processes, they're tied to tty1 and owned by init  :(  If
> I hit Alt-F2 in kickstart and chroot /mnt/sysimage, service hpasm stop,
> the rest of the kickstart %post finishes.  I also strace'd the /tmp/ks-
> script process and it's stuck at waitpid(-1, )
> 
> I cannot wait on a vendor escalation at this time, so I see one method
> of a workaround.  Move the yum installs to a firstboot scenario instead
> of %post.  I'd really like to find another way around this.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Hi,

more than 3 years later, is there a solution to this?  We have a bunch 
of HP servers and I'm working to make the installs as automated as 
possible and I'd like to end up with a system with all the HP packages 
installed after anaconda finishes...   How are you guys now proceeding?

Regards,

Ugo