When imaging our servers we run a rather lengthly customization phase
using the %post section. The entire installation is probably 30% stock,
and 70% %post. It would be helpful if I could update the UI during the
%post phase both to indicate progress and for debugging purposes. I
have a few thoughts on how I could do this, and wanted feedback on them.
1.) Create a fifo, and have anaconda read from it, and %post write to
it. Message will be forward to the UI, and displayed. While this is
probably the easiest solution, it will not work for me because I chroot
to /mnt/sysimage and then do customization. (I could skip the chroot,
but that would be a bigger pain for the customization stuff. I also
assume most other people chroot as well.)
2.) Start an XML-RPC server, and have it relay messages from %post to
anaconda. This may be to heavy weight.
3.) Just like the fifo idea except create a TCP/UDP server, and forward
all messages to the UI.
Questions, comments?
Thanks,
Christopher
