Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> anaconda has an %include directive, but that only works for local
> files. The usual trick is to %pre a wget and %include it later on. But
> that doesn't work if the parent kickstart file is the one defining the
> base parameters like which URL to install from etc.
>
> Also %including a prerendered kickstart file isn't really cobbler
> style, the variables could have changed and the included rendered file
> would reflect the old settings of the parent profile.
>
> As a workaround I'm doing the following on top of every kickstart file:
>
> #if $getVar("ksparent","") != ""
> #include $ksparent
> #end if
>
> But ksparent needs to be provided and I'm using the poor man's API as
>
> ksparent=`cobbler profile dumpvars --name=Parent | grep "^ 'kickstart':" |
> sed -e"s| 'kickstart': '\(.*\)',$|\1|"`
> ...
> cobbler profile add [...] --inherit=Parent --ksmeta="ksparent=$ksparent" [...]
>
> It would be nice if ksparent could be set automatically by cobbler and
> if a simple scriplet like
> $ cat /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/include_parent
> #if $getVar("ksparent","") != ""
> #include $ksparent
> #end if
>
> would be referenced on all sample kickstart files as
>
> $SNIPPET('include_parent')
>
> Thanks!
>
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I'm not sure I understand this one -- could you explain a bit more about
the use case and what you mean by "parent"/"ksparent" in this case?
--Michael
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