[Fedora-livecd-list] Inheritance

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Apr 27 20:05:36 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:02 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 15:56 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 15:01 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > > In the pilgrim tool it is fairly easy to inherit from "stream" files and
> > > just expand a base image into a newer image.  This means I can create a
> > > base description for an image, with all the required rpms and %post
> > > processing and then define another image description which adds more
> > > rpms and does more post processing.  We can even override hooks and
> > > files in the child description.  For instance our liveCD SDK has added
> > > gnome packages but does not download the ondisk html library to save
> > > space.  This allows me to make changes to the base image which is
> > > automatically reflected in the livecd image builds.
> > > 
> > > The real reason we need this is for country builds.  I know that the
> > > livecd tools already have the ability to take an iso and add to it but I
> > > also need the ability to do a build from scratch.  First can the current
> > > kickstart file format handle this and second how can we support this if
> > > it does not?
> > 
> > So there's the answer we have now, and then there's the longer term
> > answer that's been discussed a tiny bit.
> > 
> > The now answer is that you use %include and with that can do a
> > substantial amount of what you're looking for.  Basically, you could
> > have your base config and then a country build could be 
> >   %include /path/to/base.cfg
> >   lang fr_FR.UTF-8
> > (or something like that).  And that should[1] work to let you get at
> > least some simple inheritance.  
> > 
> > For more complex needs, we've talked a little in the past (where we is
> > mostly clumens and I, but a few others also at various points) on ways
> > to get a better concept of inheritance with the kickstart configs.  The
> > idea being that you parse one config, then the next, then the next.
> > Mostly what's needed there is just a little work in pykickstart to
> > ensure that doing a second parse pass doesn't blow up the world plus
> > defining the syntax of how you say "inherit from foo"
>
> Does this also pick up post scripts and run them in the right order?

I think the former does, but am not 100% sure without trying.  The more
complex and not done part definitely should when the code is written :-)

Jeremy




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