[rhn-users] kickstart repositories and sat server packages

[Lamon, Frank III]

I wonder if anyone might have a solution/workaround to something I'd like to do regarding kickstart and Satellite server.

We have a kickstart process in place that works really well ( I can duplicate a kickstart file for the app I need, change the name and IP info, kickstart the server and have it all done in about 5 minutes) and we'd like to retain since kickstarting with sat server generated ks files doesn't allow me to easily change the hostname info and it only has provisions for one NIC (we can have as many as 4 configured on a system) so I'd have to configure the rest manually or write some convoluted interactive script.

That said, I hate having to maintain a repository for each version of the OS we run to kickstart from when all the packages are already on the Satellite server just not in a layout I can use to install from without using the sat server kickstart files. I have found that if I use the following example line from the sat server ks file (for version of the OS I'm loading) in my ks file it works fine - ONCE and only once.   

  url --url http://satserver.yada.yada.com/ty/iO0wG4C5

I guess it's some sort of ticket in the sat server DB for the package list and gets removed once called - I don't really know. Does anyone know if there is a way to make this link permanent in the sat server so I can install against that package list whenever I want? 

Thanks,
Frank 

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