Issue With Packages Section

[William J. Dennison]

Let me be more specific

The 3 packages (rpms) exist in an "extra" "local" repository that Cobbler 
offers to Kickstart. If the command "yum install tomcat" for example is 
given, the rpm for tomcat is accessed and installed correctly. If tomcat is 
placed in the Kickstart file, Tomcat is installed, but the rc.d directory is 
not populated with a chkconfig'ed link and the start file inside /etc/init.d 
is created but empty.

Again if I run the yum command after the machine is completed it's load, all 
works correctly. Kickstart is somehow not running the installation script 
correctly or maybe there is a permission problem, I am at a loss.



On Wednesday 12 November 2008 05:18:31 pm Kyle Powell wrote:
> William J. Dennison wrote:
> > When Kickstart installs the jdk, tomcat, and VMWare packaged they are
> > pulled to the server and then installed in the right areas, however the
> > /etc/init.d parameters are not installed correctly (as if kickstart did
> > not utilize the configuration parameters in the rpms).
>
> What exactly do you mean by this? Are the init scripts not being placed in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d or are the symlinks not being created in the appropriate
> /etc/rc?.d directory? "Parameters" are not "installed", especially in the
> /etc/init.d directory.
>
> > I looked at the Anaconda log file and it seems that the rpms are not
> > installed in the correct order, could this be the problem?
>
> There's no way that I'm aware of to control the order in which Anaconda
> installs packages. They're all installed with --nodeps (and --replacefiles,
> and a few others, or maybe even just --force) to eliminate any failures due
> to packages being installed out of order. If you have packages that *must*
> be installed in a certain order, then your best bet is to install them via
> yum in a %post script.
>
> > jdk
> > tomcat
> > VMware-server
>
> I can't find these packages for RHEL 5.2. I see "jdkgcj" and "tomcat5"
> available, but nothing for VMware-server. Looks like these aren't actual
> RHEL 5 packages. Depending on your answer to my question above, we may need
> to look at the postinstall scripts for them to determine why things are
> working correctly during installation.



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