On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 11:59 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > That said, is it "normal" and "proper" (etc) for a %post script to make > references to stuff in /mnt/source/? For instance, let's say I have a > mini-tar overlay of files I want to explode into the new root that's being built > (since everything is prefixed in the tarchive by ./inst-helper/ anyway)... is: That or downloading them to /tmp (or similar) in %post via HTTP or the like. Either is reasonable. I tend to do the downloading as it's more flexible for non-NFS installs. > is that a good practice? Or is there a better way to do this? And does the > output of all of the %pre (well, that might be tricky) and %post scripts get > captured/logged somewhere? Both on a vty and later into a saved log file? The output has always ended up on tty3 -- as of FC5, you can also run your script with '--log /path/to/myfile' to have the output logged to a file instead Jeremy
