On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Musayev, Ilya wrote:
I would agree with you if this would be an existing OS, but since it's a fresh
install and we burn tested the kernel, why keep both?
I tend to agree and most of *my* recent experience on RHEL5 and RHEL6 has
proven this true to some extend, especially if it's a fresh install.
That being said, since it's a kickstart install and if you own the
kickstart server, why wouldn't you simply -replace- kernel-2.6.18-274 rpms with
kernel-2.6.18-274.3.1 rpms in the tree (along with its dependencies, if
any and rebuilding the comps and friends ). I used to re-base distribution
trees this way since at least RHL 6.1 (not RHEL). :).
My 2c,
Vincent
(empty installonlypkgs= on all systems) :)
Unless I do install and remove of old, I'm not aware of any reason why update
would be bad for a fresh OS installation.
Thanks
ilya
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Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Kernel update via kickstart on rhel5.7
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Musayev, Ilya wrote:
I'm a bit puzzled, I was under impression in the %post of kickstart I can mount
the NFS share and install/upgrade the new kernel. For some reason though, the
kernel would not get updated.
I have something like this in my post:
%post
mkdir /mnt/update
mount nfsserver:/update /mnt/update
rpm -iUvh kernel-2.6.18-274.3.1.rpm
For some reason this does not work. I cannot use YUM in this case due to some
other issue.
You *NEVER* want to update a kernel RPM .. always install.
rpm -ivh /path/to/kernel.rpm is correct.
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