Hello list,
Do you think it is a good thing anaconda to inform a running dogtail
testcase before it exists? We can send SIGUSR1 to the dogtail testcase
and let it handle this.
An example what this can be used for:
write output to dogtail logs and use %post script in kickstart to save
the logs on the installed machine.
Some questions come in mind:
1) Do we have to wait for the running dogtail process to exit normally
before continuing to %post step in anaconda? If we wait and the other
process hangs up?
The solution that I see here is send SIGUSR1 first, wait a while (how
long) then send SIGKILL to avoid hanging up.
2) What is an exception in anaconda occurs? Say while handling
partitioning. Does it execute %post if present or directly shuts down?
3) The best place to implement this? I think adding a new step in
dispatch.py and handling exceptions is enough. What's your opinion?
Any feedback is welcome.
Greetings,
Alexander.
