Are there any scripts to generate an updated Kickstart image?
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Fri Oct 3 19:51:36 UTC 2003
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:35:33PM -0400, Hans Deragon wrote:
> Greetings.
>
>
> When running kickstart using NFS, one has to create a directory where all
> the RPMs can be found. getfullcomps.py and genhdlist are used to generate
> the metadata a few data files required for anaconda to install the rpms.
>
> What I am looking for are scripts that replaces old RPMs in such a
> directory with more recent ones and regenerate the data files. The idea is
> that after downloading the updates everynight, the kickstart image
> directory is also updated so that no RPMs needs to be upgraded after an
> install (well, until the next openssh security advisory comes up. :) )
>
> Writting the scripts is easy, but I just want to know if anything already
> exist before reinventing the wheel.
To update a collection of RPMs, try AutoUpdate.
AutoUpdate is a perl(1) script that can download new rpms from
given remote sites and then pass them to rpm(8) to upgrade
your system. There are five independent modes, download, get,
update/install, merge, and purge. The mode will be determined
by the invocation name and or command line options.
I've used it for RH 8.0 and found it quite useful. I don't know that
it will update any installation/configuration files.
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