Custom RPMs and configuration files

[Ryan Golhar]

I was hoping there was a way to modify the configuration files from the
RPM's %install section.  

I'd rather not build images that RedHat provides because then there is
the issue with dealing with updates.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:29 PM
To: golharam at umdnj.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Custom RPMs and configuration files


On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:13:30PM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> I'm building custom RPMs for a lot of the applications we are 
> installing on our boxes.  All the boxes are build with kickstart.  I 
> want to automate the entire process.  I know I can install my own rpms

> in the %post section, however I need to make changes to the default 
> profile and some other configuration files on the systems.  Is there a

> way I can do this in the RPM installation?  Right now, I'm copying 
> over new configuration files from an NFS share...

You could generate your own images insteading of starting with the Red
Hat supplied RPMs.  There are instructions out there on how to do that
but I don't have them handy.  In theory, you can have your own umdnj-edu
group and select the packages to be installed from that group.

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