Re: [OT?] Installing all RPMs via Kickstart

[Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 2/13/06, seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 10:35 -0500, Matthew Miller 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?
>
> +1 to not ever wanting to do that.
>
> However you could probably try some crack like:
>
> yum install \*
>
> in %post

yum doesn't seem to be available in RHEL 3.

Why is installing all the available packages such a bad idea?  It
takes maybe 15 minutes for the machine to load them all up.

Joe