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I wrote this a while ago, but it's still very applicable to your question: http://nuxref.com/2016/10/06/hosting-rpm-repository/

I realize this post is old, but I was having the same problem and needed to automate this for an installation. Those who found this ticket searching how to automate the .desktop files to be trusted (without user interaction) and want some closure... Just do the following: # As the user who should be...

Trevor and toracat; you guys are awesome.

Trevor, I'll check out the latest info you passed along, but i solved my problem yesterday using Toracat's help. I had to modify the cfg just a wee-bit, but otherwise, it worked great.

You can lock/close this thread if you want! Kudos to all your help!

Mock doesn't provide a i386/32-bit configuration file for CentOS 7. I'm curious how 32-bit packages are rebuilt for this distribution as a result? For example... the package sip (python bindings to C++): # Closest i can get is a command like this (on a 64-bit system): linux32 rpmbuild --target=i386 ...

With respect to this link on your wiki, what are the parameters to add another repository here? I wouldn't mind adding http://nuxref.com/nuxref-repository/ to the list if I'm able. I mostly just blog about new stuff and create new packages that aren't otherwise already available to people. But I pla...

But i suppose if you really want to acompiish OP's goal, you could do the following: tar cvfz backup.tgz $(rpm -ql name ) Where name is the RPM that is installed without the version, architecture and .rpm extension. Hence lets, say you were installing a new version of nginx (e.g. nginx-1.10.1-1.el7....

In earlier versions of CentOS, you could have an interactive kickstart installation by just changing the virtual terminal using chvt ; eg: %pre # Change Virtual Terminal so we can get some input from the user chvt 3 exec </dev/tty3 >/dev/tty3 2>/dev/tty3 ( echo "PRE INSTALL START: $(date)" # write a...

Not sure if this is any good for any of you, but I ended up documenting the steps i learned along the way and put it all in a blog here.

Guys, I flashed my BIOS to the latest and greatest without considering how beautiful my system worked beforehand. Anyway, now i can't boot back into CentOS 7 now. ... [ 1.732340] localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 1.733917] loc...