Re: help ... please

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On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 09:48 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:52:52PM +0100, Martin Kolman wrote:
> > As both pykickstart and blivet are pure-python packages, new version can
> > be easily added to the updates image.
> > There are two possibilities:
> > 1) if you have a RPM with newer pykickstart/blivet version, you can
> > include it using the --add flag:
> > makeupdates --add <path_to_the_rpm>/new_blivet.rpm
> 
> I was trying this earlier (with the extlinux changes), and it wasn't working
> for pykickstart. Maybe I was doing something wrong (very possible) but it
> seemed like maybe the kickstart is parsed before the updates are applied?
> 
That could have been Dracut. IIRC Dracut is doing some kickstart parsing
before Anaconda is even running - so I guess it has it's own separate
version of pykickstart in the initrd. The pykickstart in the updates
image only replaces the one used by Anaconda.

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