Re: Updating the UI during %post

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On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 10:33 -0600, Edward F. Brown wrote:
> On Thu, October 26, 2006 9:52 pm, Christopher Boumenot wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This would go a long way to opening %post to its full potential and remove
> the mystery and difficulty of using it.  It would be even more awesome if
> %post could signal anaconda to suspend the execution of %post.  This to
> provide the opportunity for investigation or resolution of problems,
> perhaps at the F2 console or a new, dedicated console, which on exiting,
> allowed %post to resume.

Could you not just call bash in the %post for that?

Greg

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