diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/secondary b/inventory/group_vars/secondary
index b64c34b01e..f1003971db 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/secondary
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/secondary
@@ -9,3 +9,5 @@ nrpe_procs_crit: 1000
 nfs_mount_opts: "ro,hard,bg,intr,noatime,nodev,nosuid,actimeo=600"
 
 fas_client_groups: sysadmin-noc,alt-sugar,alt-k12linux,altvideos,hosted-content,mips-content,s390_content,fi-apprentice,qa-deltaisos
+
+base_pkgs_inst: [ 'ntp', 'createrepo' ]