moving kickstart forward

[Mattias Hellström]

I use one kickstart file with minor modifications for all installs
Fedora/Centos.

All my hardware is different, raid/no raid, different number of disks etc.
so I get to set up disks in Anaconda.

What I value most when it works, and irritates med most when it fails is
resiliency to minor errors (I do understand that for a different
application fail and reboot is a better way) for me, I'd rather get more
spokes to do in Anaconda.

Wish list:
* Ability to modify parameters to the auto partitioning. Things like
increasing default root partition size to 100GB or that default filesystem
should be ext4 since xfs is too slow for my application.
* Even better resiliency to minor errors.



On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Chris Lumens <clumens at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone, I've been maintaining pykickstart and kickstart support in
> anaconda in general for a very long time now, though I've not been very
> active on this list.
>
> I'm going to be looking at kickstart exclusively for the forseeable
> future.  Specifically, my focus is going to be on widening its adoption
> and making it more useful to everyone.  The first step in this process
> is information gathering.
>
> Here's what I would like to know from you guys:
>
> * How do you use kickstart right now?  What work flows do you have
> around it?  Do you generate kickstart files from some process?  Do you
> store them in version control?
>
> * What do you do in your kickstart files?  Do you have extensive %pre
> and %post sections?  If so, what kinds of things are you doing in them?
> Are you doing anything that would be generally useful that I should be
> doing for you?  Do you ever use %traceback?  Do you have unusual stuff
> going on in %packages?
>
> * What can I do to make your life easier?  What annoys you about
> kickstart right now?  What do you wish it did?  What do you wish it
> didn't do?  Would making it more like a language be helpful?  Would
> making it easier to define site-specific commands be helpful?
>
> I know this is all really vague stuff, but I am just starting out on
> this project.  I don't even really know where this is going to take me
> yet.
>
> I'd also like to emphasize that whatever I end up doing, I want to keep
> compatibility with kickstart as it exists today.  That's something I
> take seriously in pykickstart.
>
> - Chris
>
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