On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 06:34:32PM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 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!
>
> 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?The use case are subprofiles, that's where $parent comes from. If one defines a subprofile it is usually for a more specialized group of hosts that may need a slightly different kickstart file. Fortunately most kickstart options can be overriden by later options and some sections are even merged together, so that %include /some/kickstart/file/parent.ks at the very top of the kickstart file inherits the parent kickstart and extends it. This is heavily utilized in the Fedora spins, see for example https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks#L5 https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-live-base.ks The use case in cobbler is more like # cobbler list distro f10-x86_64 profile f10-x86_64 profile desktop-f10-x86_64 system prospero profile server-f10-x86_64 profile webserver-f10-x86_64 system shylock For example webserver-f10-x86_64.ks could look like $SNIPPET('include_parent') %packages @web-server %end -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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