[et-mgmt-tools] %include

[Adam Rosenwald]

Nice!!! Will make use of this!

Examples should fit nicely in the KickstartTemplating WiKi page. :)

-A.

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> drew einhorn wrote:
>> My kickstarts would be simpler and more readable if I could put stuff 
>> that's frequently used in many kickstarts in a separate file and use 
>> %include
>> Where do I put the files so kickstart can find them when the time comes.
>>
>> -- 
>> Drew Einhorn
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> I've just committed a neat feature to allow easy includes in kickstart 
> templates without needing to do the host-on-http-server / wget-in-pre 
> / %include trick.
>
> To do this, in a kickstart template, you can now say:
>
> SNIPPET::name_of_snippet
>
> and it will automatically include the contents of 
> /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/name_of_snippet
>
> The interestingness here is that the snippet definition can also 
> contain further Cobbler templating variables that are profile and/or 
> system specific -- which is something
> you can't do in Anaconda without a lot of black magic.
>
> Currently Cobbler includes only one sample snippet as an example, and 
> you will see SNIPPET::partition_select in the new default 
> kickstarts.     Folks can define as many more as they like by adding 
> files to /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/, giving each file a descriptive name.
>
> --Michael
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