RHEL5 - copy files from DVD during %post

[John Oliver]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:46:58AM -0800, Shabazian, Chip wrote:
> How big are the files?  If they are small enough, you can use an old
> workaround I had to use a long time ago where you create a ram drive,
> copy the files there in the %pre, then you can mount and access that ram
> drive in the %post.

Far too big for that :-)

Someone has offered to send me a patched image, but... this has been
known about for 18 months now.  In Bugzilla, a fix is promised in 5.2, but
that never happened, and nobody at Red Hat has updated since.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239002

Very frustrating.

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