I should already know this, but I can't find how to set up a kickstart that installs with updates (rather than doing a "yum -y update" in post).
Thumbnail sketch, anyone? I've been poking around and googling, and have not found the magic bullet. On Wed, November 21, 2012 11:59, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Looking for some opinions here. >> >> >> >> Ive 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. >> >> >> >> Is this the best way to build a host? >> >> >> >> I dont 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). >> >> >> >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
