[Spacewalk-list] Kickstarting a RHEL5 install - better with updates included or not?

[Paul Robert Marino]

Actually the install from spacewalk with all the updates is cleaner
because there is no chance an old package might have left artifacts
behind.
Although admittedly there are several schools of thought on this some
prefer to do the updates manually others prefer the updates done in
the install and there is still an other school of thought that if say
you are rebuilding a host it should have the exact same rpm versions
as the original and no additional updates.
none of them are completely right or wrong its more of a matter of
preference then any thing else.



On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Snyder, Chris <Chris_Snyder at sra.com> wrote:
> Looking for some opinions here.
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> I’ve got SW 1.8 working with RHEL5 now (thank you, J. Pazdziora) and have a
> kickstart profile uses three channels for initial package installation: core
> RHEL5 packages (from the ISO), all current RHEL5 updates so when all is said
> and done, I have a host ready to roll with no need for updates to be
> applied.
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> Is this the best way to build a host?
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> I don’t have any particular reason for this, but I have a gut feeling that a
> better way to build a host might be to ONLY use the core RHEL5 ISO packages
> and the spacewalk-client packages for initial host creation, then register
> the host with my RHEL5 update channel, and then apply any needed updates
> (could be done in a %post section).
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> The second option seems ‘cleaner’ from the stand point of it mimics building
> a host from an ISO and then applying updates, whereas the first does
> everything at once.  Theoretically the end result should be the same.
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> Thoughts?
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> Thx
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> Chris.
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> Chris Snyder
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