Hmm, I think there are a couple of different but sort-of related issues. The first is the original thread: sharing pre/post scripts between kickstart profiles. This is an area that lets spacewalk/satellite down. I logged this as an RFE (SR #1783022) Nov 13, 2007.
The second is have a 'template' kickstart profile and being able to say, create a new kickstart profile based on the template but it tracks changes made in the template kickstart profile. For example, any changes in the template are reflected in the kickstarts based on the template. However, if you change something in the kickstart based on the template, then that thing that is changed stops tracking the template. Does that make sense? CC ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lars Jonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 5:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-devel] Kickstart script questions I would like to see the same thing! a lot of customers are facing the same issue.. You don't want to have 15 different kickstart profiles to maintain. I have a parametrized post script which will parse the /proc/cmdline. The custom options is added using syslinux menus. see attachment. Cheers, Lars Jonsson EMEA Global Professional Services Red Hat AB Kista Science Tower SWEDEN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin C. Coe (Unix Engineer)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:49:48 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: [Spacewalk-devel] Kickstart script questions Hi all Are there any plans to enable sharing of kickstart pre/post scripts between different kickstart profiles? ATM, virtually all my kickstarts have one pre, one non-chroot post and one post. All pre scripts look a little like: --- common_script() { wget -P /tmp http://sat.server/pub/build_scripts/pre/$1 . /tmp/$@ rm -f /tmp/$1 } set -x common_script monolithic.sh disklayoutEL5Client --- All non-chroot posts look like: --- cp `awk '{ if ($1 ~ /%include/) { print $2}}' /tmp/ks.cfg` /tmp/ks-pre.log /tmp/ks.cfg /mnt/sysimage/root --- (Hopefully I won't need this when Sat v5.3 comes out) And all post scripts look a little like: --- common_script() { wget -q -P /tmp http://sat.server/pub/build_scripts/post/$1 . /tmp/$@ rm -f /tmp/$1 } set -x common_script monolithic.sh \ --subscribe-software-channels=rhel-x86_64-client-5,wel-rhel5-client-x86_64,rhel-x86_64-client-supplementary-5,rhel-x86_64-client-workstation-5,rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-client-5,rhel-x86_64-desktop-epel-5,dag-x86_64-desktop-5 \ --join-config-channels=welgen_rhel5_x86_64_lws,welgen_rhel5_x86_64,welgen_rhel5,welgen_lws,welgen,welcommon \ --additional-packages=samba,nbtscan,kchmviewer,kernel-devel --- I'd really like to be able to share scripts between kickstarts as this would save me a lot of work. Also, it used to be the case that if you had mulitple post scripts you couldn't control the order in which they ran. Is this still the case? Thanks CC NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
