I currently build my kickstart files in sections based on OS and then put them together with a script.
An example:
preamble.centos, preamble.centos7, preamble.fedora, preamble.ubuntu
preamble.centos, preamble.centos7, preamble.fedora, preamble.ubuntu
Everything gets concatenated together like this
cat header preamble.centos partitions.centos pre post repos.centos packages packages.centos packages.gui packages.centosgui packages.end > ks-centos6-gui.cfg
We use %pre to obtain info about the system like:
Which NIC to configure
Hostname
IP
MASK
Primary user
Admin user
What OU the host should be added
And the original proc/cmdline (so I can get some info like what kickstart file was originally used in the PXE boot)
These are all placed in /tmp/installVars as key=value
That file (and other logs) are moved in %post --nochroot
Then it is made available to the regular %post via the following:
## get installVars from /root/install_logs/installVars
while IFS="=" read -r key value; do
case "$key" in
'#'*)
# do nothing for comments
;;
*)
eval "$key=\"$value\""
;;
esac
done < /root/install_logs/installVars
I would like to +1 on the getting "%pre --log /tmp/ks-pre.log" working, currently my work around is
exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 2>&1
chvt 3
(
...
) 2>&1 | /usr/bin/tee -a /tmp/ks-pre.log
-Thomas
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Chris Lumens <clumens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey everyone, I've been maintaining pykickstart and kickstart support in
anaconda in general for a very long time now, though I've not been very
active on this list.
I'm going to be looking at kickstart exclusively for the forseeable
future. Specifically, my focus is going to be on widening its adoption
and making it more useful to everyone. The first step in this process
is information gathering.
Here's what I would like to know from you guys:
* How do you use kickstart right now? What work flows do you have
around it? Do you generate kickstart files from some process? Do you
store them in version control?
* What do you do in your kickstart files? Do you have extensive %pre
and %post sections? If so, what kinds of things are you doing in them?
Are you doing anything that would be generally useful that I should be
doing for you? Do you ever use %traceback? Do you have unusual stuff
going on in %packages?
* What can I do to make your life easier? What annoys you about
kickstart right now? What do you wish it did? What do you wish it
didn't do? Would making it more like a language be helpful? Would
making it easier to define site-specific commands be helpful?
I know this is all really vague stuff, but I am just starting out on
this project. I don't even really know where this is going to take me
yet.
I'd also like to emphasize that whatever I end up doing, I want to keep
compatibility with kickstart as it exists today. That's something I
take seriously in pykickstart.
- Chris
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