[ILUG] RedHat 6.x kickstart %post directive, installing RPMs?

[kevin lyda]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:57:54PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote:
> I really don't want to have to munge my RPMs into the distribution
> (especially when we start having different distributions on different
> read-only devices). Does anyone know how to install RPMs in the %post
> section? And why hasn't this been fixed since it was discovered by
> users first in 6.0? (I know you aren't RedHat, I'm just curious).

i never ran into this because i wanted my kickstart install system to
create a system that would update itself in the future, so i added a
/etc/rc.d/rc.local that would run a shell script to go check for updated
or additional packages (as well as packages that needed removing).

of course the system never got used so i can't offer advice on how to
use it in practice, but it seems like the best way to work around the
problem and add functionality.  is anyone using kickstart here?

kevin

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