[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Make use of "url" methods as a repo to get packages from

[Douglas McClendon]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:50:32 -0500
> Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org> wrote:
> 
>> Dumb question- What does this actually do?  (e.g. an e.g.)
> 
> Sorry, so, in a kickstart file you want to actually use to install
> something you have to define a method, that is a location to find the
> packages, or find stage2 if you started with boot.iso or pxe boot or
> something like that.  This is akin to the boot time argument
> "method=<something>".  One such method is "url" which can be http/ftp.
> Since this is a popular network install method, and since installs
> generate a kickstart file from the install, it would be handy to be
> able to take that kickstart file and shove it directly into either
> livecd-tools or pungi.  Instead of adding a repo line and duplicating
> some information, the kickstart parsing code should be able to take
> that url definition and turn it into a repo to be used later.  Since
> this only really makes sense in compose tools,

Makes sense.  Methinks the time may be nearing for more 
comprehensive/unified documentation.  No, I'm not volunteering ;)

-dmc


  but we want the code to
> do this to be in a shared location, pykickstart grew a method to turn
> the url method into a repo and add it to the repo list.  If your method
> was anything but url, pykickstart will raise a generic error, which is
> why I just have an empty except:pass.
> 
> 
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