[WBEL-users] Re: Incorporating updates into anaconda (Erik Williamson)

[Erik Williamson]

Hi Jake -

I'm doing essentially the same - I copy over a few scripts that 
bootstrap the system via cfengine & update via yum on the first boot.

The problem is that on slower machines, there's now a great deal of 
updates, so it takes a while to update on that first boot; so I thought 
that if I munge in the updated packages into the installer, the system 
would be completely up to date with it's patches right away.

The link that I posted earlier in the thread is working for my fedora 
machines; I will be trying the same with whitebox when I get some spare 
time.

Best,
Erik

Jake Grimmett wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Pretty sure that this has been discussed befora, but searching has
>>turned up nil.
>>
>>Wondering if there's a documented procedure for replacing the original
>>packages on my build server with the updated ones - after kickstarting
>>hosts, the initial patch run is getting pretty ... 'large'.  I could
>>just unpack the respin iso's, but if I could I'd like to go whole-hog
>>and put all updates on there.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Erik.
>>
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>>e r i k   w i l l i a m s o n                     erik@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
>>  system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary
> 
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> I use kickstart for all my boxes - and use the postinstall section of the 
> ks.cfg to copy a post-reboot script (setmeup.sh) over to the new machine. 
> Within this is a 'up2date -u' line - which is run *after* modifying the 
> sources and up2date files in /etc/sysconfig/rhn.
> 
> This is the tail of my ks.cfg - note the first (#) section that was used when 
> I used a floppy for kickstarts - the second section uses the network.
> 
> %post --nochroot
> echo "Welcome to the Division of Molecular Structure, NIMR." > 
> /mnt/sysimage/etc/motd
> # following lines copy script from floppy - not used with pxe
> #mkdir /mnt/floppy 
> #mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 
> #cp /mnt/floppy/setmeup.sh /mnt/sysimage/root/setmeup.sh 
> # following lines copy the post-boot setup script to the local machine
> wget ftp://titan.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/3.0u2/setmeup.sh
> cp setmeup.sh /mnt/sysimage/root/setmeup.sh
> chmod u+x /mnt/sysimage/root/setmeup.sh
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Jake
> 

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e r i k   w i l l i a m s o n                     erik@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
  system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary