Trouble getting include to work in my scripts

[Espen Stefansen]

On 6/16/05, Christian.Rohrmeier at schering.de
<Christian.Rohrmeier at schering.de> wrote:
> 
> Don't forget RHEL 2.1 anaconda doesn't support %include. (In case you are
> an unlucky type who still has to admin 2.1... like me...) ;)

I'm using Centos 4, RHEL 4 and Fedora 4. That's alot of 4's...:P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:20 PM
> Subject: Trouble getting include to work in my scripts
> 
> In my company we use kickstart to install several different computers,
> for instance laptop, desktop or servers. Each kickstart-file is
> configured to the specific needs. And in lots of those files, some
> sections are similar, like yum-settings.
> 
> So for instance if i need to edit some of the yum-settings, i must edit
> all of the kickstart-files that uses that yum-setting. Instead i want to
> put the yum-settings in it's own file and then include it in the
> kickstart-files. That will make it much easier to update.
> 
> All the files are in the same directory. So i try to use: %include
> yum_conf.inc. But that didn't work. So i tried the full path on the
> server, but that didn't help either.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion to how i can make this work....
> 
> Regards
> Espen Stefansen
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------
> 
> Hello,
> 
> If I am not wrong, the %include files should be present on  machine
> where the install is going on. So you will have to get the file to some
> temporary location (eg /tmp ) on the machine on which the installation
> is going on and then give the path to the include. You can get the file
> through a NFS mount or ftp in the %pre section of the ks.cfg
> 
I copied all of my inc-files to /tmp in the %pre-section. My kickstart
now finds them, but it wont run all of them. Some of them get a "Error
code 32256, can't run".

For instance, in the first inc there's a simple perl one-liner who
replaces a line in a file. It fails. The second inc-file does exactly
the same, but more lines in other files, but this one doesnt work. The
same scripts fail every time.

I even tried using using ksappend, but it only includes one file.

Does anybody include files in there kickstart-files, and have a
working example to show me? And does anybody know what the 32256 error
is?