adding commands to installer image

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

On 08/05/2009 11:42 PM, Larry Brigman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen<kanarip at kanarip.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:34:42 -0700, Larry Brigman<larry.brigman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Because the timestamp file in the future prevents new configurations from
>>> being
>>> recognized as up to date.  If I had a way to force the time during the
>>> %pre script to
>>> UTC, this would not be an issue.
>>>
>> You mean your configuration management utility (if any) compares by
>> timestamp rather then, say, md5sum? You're not using Puppet/CFEngine/BCFG?
>>
>
> Not using Puppet/CFEngine/BCFG.
> The timestamp file is created during the post install of the rpm.
> This is used as a safety
> check to insure that the configuration tool is run after install to
> have an up to date configuration
> with the existing config management utility - sanity check of the config file.
>

Right, and although that seems a but hackerish, in %post, you can 
ntpdate <server>; touch /path/to/timestamp-file, no? You wouldn't really 
need to adjust the installer images for that purpose, you just need to 
make sure the appropriate ntp/ntpdate package is installed.

-- Jeroen