Re: [OT?] Installing all RPMs via Kickstart

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 07:44 -0800, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> 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.
it _can_ be - but you can do the same thing with up2date, too.



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

b/c you should never install something you don't need. It's a point of
good systems administration and generally a much safer habit.

-sv