RHEL5 - copy files from DVD during %post

[John Oliver]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:47:34AM -0500, Kyle Powell wrote:
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> John Oliver wrote:
> > Someone has offered to send me a patched image, but... this has been
> > known about for 18 months now.  In Bugzilla, a fix is promised in 5.2, but
> > that never happened, and nobody at Red Hat has updated since.
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> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239002
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> > Very frustrating.
> > 
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> Hi John,
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> Yes, it did happen. Here's the link to the relevant RHEL 5.2 errata:
> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0397.html
> "* do not eject the CD before the %post scripts are run."

That's great, but... what good does an RPM do me when this fix needs to
be applied to the DVD?  I can't install an RPM to a directory structure.

I suppose I can try to crack an RPM open on a running machine and copy
the resulting files around, but... this is a pretty silly way to
distribute this fix.

> Can we back up a step? I'd like to help you get fixed up, but your original post
> doesn't describe the problem you're having. What happens when you try to install
> RHEL 5.2?

I need to mount the DVD in %post to copy files off, and I cannot do that
when the DVD is ejected before the kickstart gets to %post.

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