I would guess you could figure out both based on the kernel that's running. Put a sleep statement in your pre, open up a shell, and poke around. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vadym Chepkov Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:32 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: releasever in a kickstart On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Shabazian, Chip wrote: > Write a script to do what you want, write out a file, and use %include in the %packages section. But that's the problem, how do I determine $releasever/$basearch in %pre section ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vadym Chepkov > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:19 AM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: releasever in a kickstart > > Hi, > > I am trying to improve a generic kickstart for Fedora. 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