I've had a look at the System Configurator man page, and I've done some thinking about where it's appropriate to have this support. I believe that it's better to execute the postscripts directly from the autoinstall script.
Here are my thoughts: - Postscripts may do _anything_, and are not necessarily related to configuring the system. One of the postscripts I'm going to put immediately to work in my environment is an xcat postinstall script that tells xcat to boot the node normally after install, instead of installing it again.
- It may prove useful to have pre-scripts, and mid-scripts, and other kinda scripts at some point, and it would be nice to be able to implement them in the same way. Unfortunately, if we use System Configurator to call those scripts, we're limited to running scripts on a machine that has completed it's imaging, or we need to find a way to include System Configurator in the boel_binaries tarball.
- I don't believe this adds complexity. As it turns out, the way the postscript support is currently implemented, I believe we actually have fewer lines of code than before. This is primarily due to pulling all scripts at once (autoinstall and post), instead of trying several pulls until we get a hit.
- The additional lines in the autoinstallscript.conf file amount to this:
##################################################################### # # Post Install Scripts # run_postinstall_scripts # #####################################################################
Thoughts?
Cheers, -Brian
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