Re: [PATCH - master] get rid of the early kickstart processing pass

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On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 13:43 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
> The following set of patches reduces the number of kickstart passes in
> anaconda.  There's now just a pass to deal with %pre scripts, and a pass
> to parse everything else.  This means all the partitioning commands can
> now be in a file generated by a %pre script, and that there's no annoying
> early pass to add certain commands into that you'll forget about later.  I
> have also moved all the important stuff out of the parse methods and into
> execute methods, therefore separating parsing from "code generation" - you
> know, like a compiler would.
> 
> This patch set requires another set of patches from pykickstart, which I
> will attach to this thread.

The whole set, including the pykickstart stuff, looks okay to me. I must
admit, however, that I didn't understand it all.

> 
> One issue - the order of commands matters.  You need to put clearpart in
> before your other partitioning commands or else it won't work.  Commands
> are executed in the order they are seen.  I think it would be easy to fix
> this, but I also think this is the way it's always been.  Any thoughts?

I think this is a good thing -- it encourages well-organized kickstart
configs.

Dave

> 
> - Chris
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