[Yum] Survey of Use

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Oct 24 13:48:03 UTC 2003


> 
> IMHO it would be a terribly cool feature in kickstart, considering the new
> love for yum in fedora, to let yum install *all* of the packages in the
> kickstart so you get the newest package the first time.  This should shave
> 10-15 minutes off of the time it take me to kickstart a new workstation not
> to mention the reduced load on the yum/kickstart server and the LAN.

It would be hard to do in the installer. If you really want to speed
along. Install the smallest possible set of pkgs via kickstart, then do
the rest in %post w/yum.

-sv





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