loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread Steven A. DuChene
I have been requested to load a duplicate system based on the list of rpms present on the original system. This is a CentOS based system so I looked at the kickstart file but rather than working with a list of rpms it uses a list of higher level packages that then reference groups of rpms to make

loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Steven A. DuChene wrote: I have been requested to load a duplicate system based on the list of rpms present on the original system. This is a CentOS Does anyone know of a tool that would allow me to do a fresh load of a bare system based on a list of desired rpms?

Re: loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread Ryan Rix
Steven A. DuChene wrote: I have been requested to load a duplicate system based on the list of rpms present on the original system. This is a CentOS based system so I looked at the kickstart file but rather than working with a list of rpms it uses a list of higher level packages that then

Re: loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread Steven A. DuChene
the rpms in my original list? -Original Message- From: Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com Sent: Nov 23, 2009 2:55 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: loading fresh system from rpm list? Steven A. DuChene wrote: I have been requested to load a duplicate system based

Re: loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread Steven A. DuChene
on the original system. -Original Message- From: R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com Sent: Nov 23, 2009 2:54 PM To: Steven A. DuChene linux-clust...@mindspring.com, Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: loading fresh system from rpm list? On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Steven

Re: loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread Stephen
Maybe look at webmin or advanced options of yum would be my start On 11/23/09, Steven A. DuChene linux-clust...@mindspring.com wrote: I have been requested to load a duplicate system based on the list of rpms present on the original system. This is a CentOS based system so I looked at the

Re: loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread Eric Shubert
-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: loading fresh system from rpm list? On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Steven A. DuChene wrote: I have been requested to load a duplicate system based on the list of rpms present on the original system. This is a CentOS Does anyone know of a tool that would allow

Re: loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Steven A. DuChene wrote: The original system is a VERY minimal install and that is what the owner wants me to mimic on the second system. He very carefully went through and removed any packages he did not absolutely need so rather than duplicate that work I thought I

Re: loading fresh system from rpm list?

2009-11-23 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:54 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: We have a product we use for testing such stripped boxes, as well as for production, and we make it available to customers: http://www.pmman.com/ I'm sure I'm just being stupid here but I can't figure out what your pricing is