Hi Matt,
I think I lead you down a wrong path, you are looking I think for
cobbler specific items.
I was referring for kickstart specific items, apologize for that.
One thing to keep in mind with kickstart, the "%include" you've put in
is only read/parsed after all "%pre" scripts are run.
Regards,
Adrian
On 08/30/2012 01:30 PM, Matt Bryant wrote:
Adrian,
Thats what I thought but I was getting an error and in fact the
kickstart was bombing out with an error and from what i could see it
was as if the include file was trying to be sourced before it actually
existed.
Whats interesting is that after seeing your reply I tweaked the
kickstart so instead of saying somthign like
#if $userConfig == "1"
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/user_input')
%include /tmp/ks.settings
#end if
which completed failed I changed to
#if $userConfig == "1"
%pre --interpreter /usr/bin/python
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/user_input')
%end
%include /tmp/ks.settings
#end if
Now, this didnt fully work but at least it didnt crash out either ....
at the end of the snippet i had a file /tmp/ks.settings with
#set global $buildType = "CUSTOMER"
which to my mind should update the kickstrt profiles buildType
variable but the code later in the kickstart
ie
#if $buildType != "INTERNAL"
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/packages.customer')
#end if
suggests otherwise ie the extra packages in the snippet are not
installed ...
Its starting to get a little frustrating since from all that I have
read this should work ,,,,
rgds
Matt B
On 30/08/12 18:42, Adrian Cruceru wrote:
Hi Matt,
In kickstart file you could use:
%include /tmp/configvalue.txt
And in %pre you could just add whatever you want in that file, given
kickstart syntax.
i.e: echo "bootloader --location=mbr" > /tmp/configvalue.txt
Regards,
Adrian
On 08/30/2012 07:43 AM, Matt Bryant wrote:
All,
I was wondring if someone could point me in the right direction Is it
possible to update a vaiable in kickstart file give user input in a
%pre script. Basically i have a varibale buildType and whilst I can
override the default value of the profile using ksmeta input when
adding a system to cobbler would like to also be able to override
given user input from %pre script.
Have tried just about everything i can think of including creating a
file ks.settings which held the variations
#set global $buildType = "value"
#set global buildType ="value"
#set buildType = "value"
#set $buildType = "value"
then doing a #include but that doesnt seem to work ...
Is there in fact a way this can be done ??
Any help appreciated.
rgds
Matt B.
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