Kickstart-list Digest, Vol 133, Issue 5

Wed Jul 29 07:20:36 UTC 2015

Since there is no standard for where to put comments or how many
lines there should be it can only boil down to some best practices.

Judging from what I've seen so far I would say comments mostly
precede a command.

Why do you care about the comments?

What about the #rhel channel on freenode? My nick is 'bdat'.

Richard

Why does your script care about comments?
On 07/29/2015 09:05 AM, Petr Hracek wrote:
> Right,
> 
> but how I can determine what comments belongs to?
> 
> Like # Use network installation belongs to installation
> I should detect if url is present and add a comment after that.
> 
> All those actions are going to be done by python scripts.
> 
> I have been working on project called preupgrade-assistant
> which has an aim to migrate RHEL 6 -> RHEL 7 machine
> via kickstart.
> preupgrade-assistant is written in Python.
> 
> Is there any IRC channel where we can discuss it?
> Greetings.
> Petr
> 
> On 07/29/2015 09:00 AM, Richard Neuboeck wrote:
>> I don't understand the question. As long as it starts with # you can
>> write as many comments into the kickstart file as you want.
>>
>> i.e.
>> # Use network installation
>> url --url="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/"
>> # Add EPEL right from the start to make things easier
>> # And another comment
>> repo --name="EPEL"
>> --baseurl=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/ --cost=5
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> On 07/29/2015 08:33 AM, Petr Hracek wrote:
>>> Yeah, this could be a way.
>>>
>>> I will try it definitelly.
>>>
>>> And I have a another question.
>>> Let's say that I would like to add a bunch of comments to my
>>> kickstart before an URL definitions.
>>> How to do that?
>>>
>>> URL section begins with
>>> # Use network instalation
>>>
>>> Greetings
>>> Petr
>>>
>>> On 07/29/2015 08:09 AM, Richard Neuboeck wrote:
>>>> How about a pre-install script that writes a partition schema file
>>>> for inclusion in kickstart?
>>>>
>>>> The following site describing how to create such a script has a nice
>>>> example:
>>>> https://github.com/rhinstaller/pykickstart/blob/master/docs/kickstart-docs.rst#chapter-4-pre-installation-script
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/28/2015 09:42 PM, Petr Hracek wrote:
>>>>> Yeah, because of my program
>>>>> written in python generates/updates a kickstart
>>>>> with some modifications.
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings
>>>>> Petr
>>>>> On 07/28/2015 07:58 PM, Matthew wrote:
>>>>>> Any reason for python specifically?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> zerombr
>>>>>> clearpart --all --initlabel
>>>>>>
>>>>>> part pv.01 --size=1 --grow
>>>>>>
>>>>>> volgroup vg_name_rhe6-lvroot  pv.01
>>>>>> logvol /  --fstype ext4 --name=root --vgname=vg_name_rhe6-lvroot
>>>>>> --size=21000 --grow
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matthew M. Conley
>>>>>> 912-398-6704
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>        1. How to add partitions to kickstart file with python
>>>>>>     (Petr Hracek)
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>>>>>>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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>>>>>>     Cc: 
>>>>>>     Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:23:29 +0200
>>>>>>     Subject: How to add partitions to kickstart file with python
>>>>>>     Hi folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     I have a data like:
>>>>>>     partition name /dev/mapper/vg_name_rhe6-lvroot
>>>>>>     mount point /
>>>>>>     size 20GB
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Is there any way how to add this data to kickstart file?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     How can I read commented data from kickstart file generated by
>>>>>>     anaconda?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     All should be done in Python.
>>>>>>     Any idea?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     -- 
>>>>>>     Petr Hracek
>>>>>>     Software Engineer
>>>>>>     Developer Experience
>>>>>>     Red Hat, Inc
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>>>>>>     email: phracek at redhat.com <mailto:phracek at redhat.com>
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