kickstart configuration file testers?

Ulisses Furquim ulissesf at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 19:22:48 UTC 2005


On 11/24/05, Ulisses Furquim <ulissesf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/24/05, Klaus Steden <klaus.steden at thomson.net> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a good way (or better yet, a tool!) to test kickstart
> > > configuration files without having to reboot and rebuild a machine?  It's
> > > extraordinarily time consuming to reboot a machine with a kickstart
> > > configuration file that may not work.
> > >
> > I don't know about a consistency-checker if such a thing exists (wouldn't mind
> > having it, if it did) but I use VMware to check my kickstarts.
>
> Using VMware can cut some testing time, but I think that writing a
> kickstart-validator is going to be easier now that we have pykickstart
> (rawhide), right?

Actually, pykickstart already has a ksvalidator, but I don't know if
the format has changed. Does anyone know?

-- Ulisses




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