[CentOS-devel] kickstart extra minimal

Karsten Wade

kwade at redhat.com
Thu Jan 15 05:29:51 UTC 2015


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On 01/14/2015 04:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Dries Verachtert 
> <dries.verachtert at dries.eu> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 01/09/2015 06:27 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> 
>>>> the problem is - the scope of this would be large enough that
>>>> anyone can manage it, and everyone can get involved. But I
>>>> dont want to do this as a part of the Core effort, that
>>>> closes too many doors. But the SIGs are too specialised in
>>>> their outlook to curate something of this nature.
>>>> 
>>>> The only group in a suiteable place to perhaps take ownership
>>>> of a resource like that would be the docs group - so we do a
>>>> community contributed setup there, and the build services
>>>> retail their own metadata ( which is what the atomic / docker
>>>> / cloud stuff is ) as and when and where they need it.
>>> 
>>> That sounds reasonable. Who from the community would like to
>>> lead this effort?
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I would like to help with this. Editing & testing kickstart files
>> can be time consuming trial and error and some nice samples for
>> various setups could be very useful for quite some people I
>> think.
>> 
>> Kind regards, Dries
> 
> If you're going this route, can I beg you to put in this? I've
> asked the anaconda developers for this before, and it's invaluable
> for getting your actual ks.cfg saved for reference, rather than
> that wildly distinct and script discarding 'anaconda-ks.cfg'.
> 
> %post --nochroot cp -a /tmp/ks.cfg /mnt/sysimage/root/ks.cfg %end

This kind of thing makes me think, metadata around each kickstart is
crucial to this. We can't just have a raw .ks file, unless it's as
well documented (#commented) as a Tom Callaway tutorial example.

What I mean is, we need a way to track your comment about why that bit
is invaluable for which situations, and how/where it's useful in what
sort of kickstart files.

- - Karsten
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