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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>How do you use
kickstart right now? What work flows do you have<br>
around it? Do you generate kickstart files from some process?
Do you<br>
store them in version control?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>For our test / dev sandbox, PXE boot menu options that specify build
parameters via the ks=URI to a php script i.e. MACHINE_TYPE=vm,phy_hp,phy_ucs DISK_TYPE=flat,lvm
DISK_SIZE=sm,med,large….. sometimes one-off’s for specific
builds based on hostname via dhcp reserved ip address to be able to rebuild the
same box over and over again for testing…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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* What do you do in your kickstart files? Do you have extensive %pre<br>
and %post sections? If so, what kinds of things are you doing in them?<br>
Are you doing anything that would be generally useful that I should be<br>
doing for you? Do you ever use %traceback? Do you have unusual
stuff<br>
going on in %packages?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Use %post to wget mgmt stuff - sudoers, ssh-keys, repo setup & security
validation & the like<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><br>
* What can I do to make your life easier? What annoys you about<br>
kickstart right now? What do you wish it did? What do you wish it<br>
didn't do? Would making it more like a language be helpful? Would<br>
making it easier to define site-specific commands be helpful?<br>
<br>
I know this is all really vague stuff, but I am just starting out on<br>
this project. I don't even really know where this is going to take me<br>
yet.<br>
<br>
I'd also like to emphasize that whatever I end up doing, I want to keep<br>
compatibility with kickstart as it exists today. That's something I<br>
take seriously in pykickstart.<br>
<br>
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