[Spacewalk-list] automatic updates after installation

[raj kumar]

Thank you all. I was looking any spacewalk api/feature that detects updates
from the update channel and install it automatically.

But for now, post script is fine for me.


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:33 AM, The PowerTool
<thepowertool_sc at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Raj,
>
> If you are looking to install updates automatically after installation
> assuming you have a currently working kickstart you would add yum -y to
> %post in your kickstart file as has already been covered and you would have:
> 1.  Boot, kickstart
> 2.  Install of OS
> 3.  %post with the yum command executes
> 4.  Your freshly installed system zooms out to the internet to update
> (assuming your network installed properly)
>
> Given this is the Spacewalk channel, and granted covers kickstart as a
> subset of the Spacewalk install, I am going to guess that perhaps you might
> like something more along the lines of:
> 1.  Boot, kickstart
> 2.  Install OS
> 3.  %post registers your client with your local Spacewalk server
> 4.  Your freshly installed system automatically updates via your local
> Spacewalk server
>
> If this is what you are looking for then in %post you need your client
> regestered:
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients
>
> While I have not yet done this automatically, yet, I have done it manually
> and am now in the process of testing automating registration and update via
> kickstart.  Here's what I have for my F18:
> http://pastebin.com/KwKbWPkr
>
> Note:  My Spacewalk server is named spacewalk.  You must change the URL to
> match your server name.  I have not yet figured out how to update the hosts
> entry via the kickstart file which is my next to-do so that I don't have to
> use the IP address.  My kickstart file shows the registration with the
> server name which will not work until I resolve the hosts entry question.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:28:03 +0530
> From: rajkumar600003 at gmail.com
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] automatic updates after installation
>
>
> I'd like to know how to configure a kickstart profile to install updates
> automatically after installation.
>
> At present, after installation, I have to go and update the system
> manually from web interface.
>
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