[SCRIPT] ksmono-izer, was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Inheritance in kickstart and package removals
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Sun Jan 6 19:53:13 UTC 2008
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a Xfce spin of Fedora available at
> http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-xfce.ksa which as you
> can see inherits the base desktop kickstart file which removes wget. I
> have been trying to add it back in my kickstart file but wget is not in
> the image created by livecd-creator. I have been able to reproduce this
> consistently.
>
> Seth Vidal on IRC commented that urlgrabber would serve the same purpose
> as wget and of course curl is also there but regardless of value of wget
> in the Xfce spin, this seems to be a bug that I can't add back packages
> that are removed in the base kickstart file I am inheriting from. Comments?
FWIW attached is a simple script I put together to use pykickstart to
generate a monolithic kickstart file from a multi-file (include-using)
kickstart file. It may shed some light on what pykickstart is doing
under the covers...
basic usage: ksmono-izer --output=out.ks input.ks
-dmc
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