--- Hella Breitkopf schrieb am 17.04.2003, 11:06 ---
Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond wants to install Systems from DVD :
You could try to deinstall unwanted packages in a post-installscript: Something like this should work (mmh, at least in autoyast for Suse8.0 it should work with this syntax, haven't done scripts with newer versions): <post-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <filename>delete-unwanted-pakets</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source> <![CDATA[ # delete unwanted rpm pakets rpm -e postfix ]]>> </source> </script> </post-scripts>
Sadly, removing postfix in a postinstall-script fails for the following reason - sadly :-( When installing postfix (from the Minimal base) AND sendmail (from my package selection) in parallel, this really is an inconsistent system. Postfix contains "/usr/sbin/sendmail" as a sendmail-compatibility-program, uninstalling postfix removes /usr/sbin/sendmail, effectively breaking the sendmail-package, which also owns a /usr/sbin/sendmail - THE ORIGINAL! So doing an rpm -e postfix in the postinstall-script effectivly leaves the system without any functioning SMTP ...
Hmm, if you install systems with sendmail - are these servers or workstations? If it is a lean server installation, the needed packages probably will fit on a CD-Rom - so the solution gets cheaper since you can use a CD-Recorder .. (You'll have some fun in repacking the stuff but it *should* work)
Well, the systems are servers - i don't think i'll ever manage to fit my package selection on a CD, but - alas - i can give it a try and have some fun with it ;-)
Or you might think about doing it via NFS or other supported network protocoll, since that works very nice and you can make your own base-package descriptions. (If you have somewhere a network and enough discspace - why not?)
Well, NFS is OK, when i'm installing here, but - no way out in the field ...
Just my two pfennige^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h groschen^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h cents ..
Hella Breitkopf - who does it all via NFS
Anyway - thanks for your 2 pfennings ... groschen ... cents ... well, lets talk in Bytes - there's no conversion *grin* Wolfgang, who's going in circles ...