Re: yum in kickstart %post and HP Insight Mgr

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Seth Vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> more than 3 years later, is there a solution to this?  We have a bunch of
>> HP servers and I'm working to make the installs as automated as possible and
>> I'd like to end up with a system with all the HP packages installed after
>> anaconda finishes...   How are you guys now proceeding?
>>
>>
> 1. did anyone tell hp about this and get them to fix their packages?
>
> 2. if you know which packages it is you're worried about and you know
> there's nothing else running in their %scriptlets then you could install
> those pkgs w/yum using a yum.conf with tsflags=noscripts under [main].
>

The question is, does HP care?  The last time I used hpasm and
friends, HP wanted you to install them using their "insightpaq" bundle
and installer or something similar.  I think their "supported" method
still requires at least running under the actual boot kernel because
it did some kind of kernel module futzing in the scriptlet or at
startup.  Minimally, I think they make the assumption that userspace
is more standard than what's found during %post in kickstart.

Me personally?  This is a task for cfengine or puppet at first boot.
Failing that, perhaps this might work around the problem in %post:

    nohup yum -y install $hpstuffola 2&>1 > /dev/null < /dev/null &

HTH, and why yes, I'm still having coffee

-n

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