[SLL] Setting up install server for CentOS 4.5 with updates

[Bill Campbell]

Last week I asked about setting this up for CentOS 5.0, and got that
working with Jesse Keating's help.

I have to do this now with CentOS 4.5 as (a) we want to run Zimbra on the
system which doesn't work with 5.0, and (b) I've been told that 4.5 is
generally a much more solid release than 5.0 at this point.

That said, when I used system-config-kickstart to generate the ks.cfg file,
and added an appropriate ``repo'' line, the install barfed saying that
``repo'' is an invalid keyword.

My question now is whether I can simply replace RPM packages on the
installation servers with the current updated versions, and expect anaconda
to work or is there some magic necessary to create index or other files?

I haven't been able to find documentation on this on the Red Hat or CentOS
sites, or through Google searching.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:57:49 -0700
>Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
>
>> Assuming that it's possible to set up a network installation
>> server for CentOS 5.0 which includes all updates, can somebody
>> point me to documentation on how this would be done?
>
>I don't know of any docs, but if you're using kickstart, you can add
>yum repos in your kickstart config that will be used during install.
>One such repo could be the updates repo.  You'll need to be using
>either exploaded NFS or http install methods, isos won't work.
>Anaconda uses yum to do the package seeking and installing, so if yum
>finds a newer package <foo> in your addon repo, it will install that
>instead of the <foo> in your base repo.
>
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