Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (49 mails)

["King, Richard (CE1 UNIX Admin)" <rking@xxxxxx>]

Hello All, 

I am installing NLD9 via autoyast, which I've been using for a long
time, and does work very well. However, I have a new RPM to add, but the
only catch is that the rpm will not install unless the "--force" option
is used, if I were to install the rpm by hand with the "--force" option,
the rpm will install. I did edit the control file accordingly and added
the new rpm. After the install is finshed, the new rpm is listed when I
run "rpm -qa", however, the file is not present. I was curious if there
was a way to use the "--force" option during the autoyast install
process for the software section. If not, I could copy the files needed
onto the target machine during the autoyast install. This leads me to my
next question. If I need to copy a binary file to a specific directory
on the target machine, what is the best way to to accomplish this task
during the autoyast install? As a test, I wrote a script in the
pre-script section of the control file to "cp -p binary_file /usr/sbin",
which didn't work. Then I used the absolute path of the binary_file, "cp
-p /local/SuSE/i386/nld9/binary_file /usr/sbin/binary_file", which
didn't work either.  

**Background**
The new rpm that I am referring to is the new tg3 NIC driver which I
created an rpm from a source rpm. The old tg3 driver will not work with
the new workstations.  

Help with this problem would be greatly appreciated. 

--
Rick King
 
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