[Yum] Survey of Use

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Fri Oct 24 14:54:19 UTC 2003


> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 06:49, seth vidal wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> We do a combination of that (small initial package set) and we keep a
> modified redhat distribution with the updates integrated (as well as a
> couple extra packages).  This can make a huge difference when there are
> many updates to be applied...

I do the same thing, with a really pared down comps.xml.  How are people
installing yum?  I'm currently manually listing the RPM's that need to be
installed, including yum dependencies.  But this is a handful of packages
to specify, is there any better way?






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