Ok, thanks. What i need is a way to obtain some configuration files generated by anaconda like '/etc/sysconfig/iptables' or '/etc/sysconfig/clock' providing the kickstart file. I have loooked up at the anaconda's code to identify the points where those files are written and it seem's that they are located in the directory pyanaconda. There's a way to run anaconda so that the only task it does is to generated configuration files and to exit before installing packages? On Monday 31 May 2010 19:24:43 John Reiser wrote: > > i'm new to anaconda. I'm trying to investigate if it's possible to track the > > installation process in order to distinguish between files written in the target > > volume that are generated depending on the configuration specified by the user > > and those that are extracted from RPM packages. > > The list of files that were extracted from .rpm packages can be generated > after installation by something like: > rpm -ql $( rpm -qa ) > which lists all the installed packages (rpm -qa) then lists all the files > (rpm -ql) in those packages. You may have to specify the format of package > names produced by (rpm -qa) to include the $ARCH if there are both .i686 > and .x86_64 packages. > > The list of all files in a running system is something like: > find $( ls -d /* | egrep -v '^/proc$|^/sys$' ) > Then subtract the two lists, probably using 'sort' and 'comm'. > > The list of all files created during installation can be captured via > strace -p <PID-of-anaconda> -o strace.out -f -e trace=open > which should be entered to the shell on VT2 when the splash screen > appears on VT6. Do a "ps -ax" to figure out the process id (PID) of > anaconda. Of course some of these may be temporary files for > installation only, so use "-e trace=open,unlink" and then subtract. > >
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