Simple way to update kickstart RPM files?

[Jason Kohles]

I just use reposync (from the yum-utils package) to mirror the repositories, and then use them for the install.

On Oct 1, 2010, at 1:50 AM, whitivery wrote:

> I have a kickstart server with the files copied from the CentOS
> 5.5 DVD's "CentOS" directory to a "CentOS" directory on the
> server, accessed by ftp during kickstart.
> 
> On a target built by this system, I did a yum update, and over
> 100 packages were updated.
> 
> I would like to merge the updates back to the kickstart server.
> 
> But I don't see a simple way to just throw the *.rpm files (as
> grabbed from yum's cache) into some "updates" directory and the
> kickstart will do the right thing and resolve dependencies and
> install the latest.
> 
> I would rather the updates just get installed in the first place,
> instead of having to take a second pass to do some kind of yum
> update method.
> 
> Is there an elegant way?
> 
> 
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