Re: [OT?] Installing all RPMs via Kickstart

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 07:40 -0800, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:26:57AM -0800, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> > > I know I can select groups of packages when doing a kickstart
> > > installation.  (base, gnome, etc)   But how can I select all the
> > > packages for installation, even the ones that aren't selected by
> > > default in those groups?
> >
> > Why would you ever want that?
> 
> It's easier to install everything, than trying to figure out later
> that a user wants a piece of software and trying to go back and
> install it and its dependencies.
> 
> For example, gvim isn't in the the editor group by default, for some
> strange reason.  So I'd have to add that one to the kickstart file,
> along with its dependencies.  And repeat for a lot of others that I
> don't know about yet.
> 

b/c of all the updates that normally need to be applied for any given
install - we tend to make our %packages list very, very thin  and add
all the necessary bits in %post via yum.

it makes the install go faster b/c you don't have to futz around with
applying updates as well as the original package.


oh - and this is probably better off on kickstart-list

-sv