On Fri, October 27, 2006 11:20 am, Greg Dickie wrote: > Could you not just call bash in the %post for that? Yes, and we do. Like Christopher, we make extensive use of %post. However, as just about every other post to this or the kickstart list indicates, developing, debugging, and maintaining %post scripts is not easy or well understood. "We strive for minimal %post scripts" or "we only use %post to install our real post-install script to run on firstboot" are common conclusions. The simple ability to display messages or progress indications from %post to anaconda's display as Christopher is proposing, without having to code your own chvt's etc. in %post, would be a huge improvement. And likewise to be able to signal anaconda to suspend %post (and from there to resume) would allow a native, documented, flexibility and robustness that now is a wheel for each kickstart developer to reinvent, if they have the time or persistence to do it for themselves. -Ed
