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

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:46:42 -0700
Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> 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.

Correct, this is new for RHEL5.

> 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?

There is other magic.  genhdlist at least and possibly more.  I haven't
done a RHEL4 compose in a long time, so it may just be easier to hook
into the updates repo in %post and just do a yum update there.

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

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