[et-mgmt-tools] %include

[Michael DeHaan]

Adam Rosenwald wrote:
> Nice!!! Will make use of this!
>
> Examples should fit nicely in the KickstartTemplating WiKi page. :)

It's a public wiki ... so community generated examples are always 
welcome anytime.   You'll need to create a Fedora Account System account 
to get
started:   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

However, just to get folks started, I've written some things up:  
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating

Probably more than most want to know :)


>
> -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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>>>
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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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