Re: %include syntax and usage

[Robert Denton <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wanna say thanks to all the good folks who contributed to my  
knowledge of how to use includes in kickstart files, I not only  
learned _how_ to do it, but how it all works as well, which is a  
terrific bonus.  Thanks again, and for the record, the nuts and bolts  
of actually getting it to work consisted of nothing more than:

%include /tmp/packages

%pre
wget http://10.0.0.54/packages -O /tmp/packages


On Sep 14, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Tedman Eng wrote:

> I would like to re-emphasize that very important point for the sake of
> future Googlers:
>
> Default ks.cfg behavior is:
>
> %pre runs in non chroot
> /usr/bin/some_tool is busybox's version
>
>
> %post runs in "chroot /mnt/sysimage"
> /usr/bin/some_tool is the installed RPM version
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shabazian, Chip [mailto:Chip.Shabazian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:17 PM
> > To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> > Subject: RE: %include syntax and usage
> >
> >
> > Do as I suggested earlier, put a sleep 9999999 in your %pre,  
> > kickstart
> > the box, open a shell (Alt-F2) and test it.  Try a wget, look
> > at what's
> > in /tmp (for example, you will see the kickstart file has been copied
> > there), if you are building over nfs, see what's mounted where, etc.
> > When you do this, you are working in the same build environment that
> > kickstart is working in.  Anything you can do here, you can do in
> > kickstart.  Anything you can't access here, kickstart can't access.
> >
> > You can do the same thing for your %post, except that in
> > order to be in
> > the same environment (unless you use nochroot), you will need
> > to chroot
> > /mnt/sysimage first.
> >
> > Chip
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Denton
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:59 PM
> > To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> > Subject: Re: %include syntax and usage
> >
> > Jesse, that's interesting approach.  I have actually tried using wget
> > but I get the error that wget is not a known command. I usually do
> > not use a %pre section.  Where should I put the wget?  In the
> > %post?
> > Don't I need to declare packages before the %post section?
> >
> > Robert Denton
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> >
> > On Sep 13, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 18:38, Robert Denton wrote:
> > > > Right, I see what you mean about the documentation.  I
> > would love for
> >
> > > > one of the maintainers of kickstart to pipe in regarding
> > how to use
> > > > include in kickstart scripts.  Where does the
> > "/path/to/file" need to
> >
> > > > live in order for the install to see it.  That is very confusing.
> > >
> > > The path is relative to the file system on the system being
> > installed.
> >
> > > I generate them in %pre to dump to /tmp/packages (since that's
> > > writable memdisk), or wget them to /tmp/packages so my %include is
> > > %include /tmp/packages.
> > >
> > > Think of it like this, once you've started the install, go to tty2
> > > where you would get a shell, and that file system would be
> > where your
> > > file needs to live.
> > >
> > > --
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