Re: FC6 - How to update packages on kickstart server

[kickstart <kickstart hastek net>]

Andy Meany:
>    Thank you all for your input.  I used novi to create a patched
>    installation tree.  It was actually quite simple  to do and it worked

Novi does work well for this!

I don't know if this is helpful for coding ideas or shortcuts, but
here is my script for fetching from the CentOS repo using rsync.
Once you do the initial pull it becomes very lightweight what with rsync.

http://hastek.net/novi/centos-x86_64-updater.html

The branch /data1/kickstart/CentOS44-prepatched/ was first populated
by copying a centos44 DVD install image to it.

-Harold