Hi,
While grooming rawhide for work on the threaded UI, I made a patch
providing a shell script to restart the stage2 anaconda. This is for our
internal development and debugging so we can avoid some reboots every
day. There had to be a change in the loader too because the script needs
to communicate with it that anaconda should be restarted. The mechanism
this works is by writing an empty /tmp/restart-anaconda file and then
killing anaconda and all its descendant processes. Even though I think
this is fine, I welcome suggestions about a nicer/better way to do this.
I tested restarting anaconda early after its start and it works pretty
reliably, even after storageinit. I think we will see problems when one
does the restart after e.g. /mnt/sysimage is mounted or similar, but
I'll try to fix those too so the restart method becomes pretty universal.
The second patch re-downloads updates.img with each restart so changes
to the code can be done that way. (another way is modifying an
uncompressed stage2 image directly, described here
https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2010-April/msg00359.html.
That's more general, one can even add libs etc. to the image without
rebooting.)
Hope you'll find this useful.
Ales
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