Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (46 mails)

[Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Marcus Meissner forwarded me to this mailinglist regarding a problem I
have with installing packages in the postinstall on SLES10.

We created a few extra repositories (using mrepo) and add these with a
rug-command during the postinstall. The next thing we would like to do is
install some of the packages from these repositories in the postinstall.

Sadly, running 'yast -i' does not work, because of an error message that
yast is already runing or the package database is being lock by another
yast:

    http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-sles-e/2007-Dec/0032.html

What I am doing is explained more in the original message of this thread.

So what is the best way to install packages in the postinstall from a
repository without adding the packages directly to the installation media.

PS We are now using 'rpm -U --quiet' on exact URLs, but that is
problematic if we update one of these packages as we have to manually edit
the postinstall phase. I much more prefer that we rebuild the repository
metadata and let 'yast' do the installation of the latest version in the
postinstall.

Thanks for your help !
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