[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart Snippets in Post Scripts

[Colin Coe]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:26 AM, David Rock <david at graniteweb.com> wrote:
> * Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> [2010-08-07 13:18]:
>> I maybe misunderstanding but in a kickstart the only place you can put
>> scripts (and snippets are effectively just pieces of a script) is in
>> either the pre or post sections.
>>
>> The syntax is $SNIPPET('snippet_name_here') and make sure that your
>> snippet starts with '#raw' and ends with '#end raw'.
>>
>> A good information source is
>> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating.
>
> Thanks.  I am currently running a couple more tests with #raw #end raw
> in the snippets. I've been reading the KickstartTemplating page (and the
> KickstartSnippets one) quite a bit.  That's mainly why I have the
> confusion.  The implication is that snippets are for templates only.
> Maybe I don't quite understand what a template really is.
>
> I was looking to see what is actually getting generated, so I tried the
> following to look at the profile:
>
> cobbler profile getks --name=testprofile:1:CSC
>
> and looking at the %post section I see:
>
> %post
> (
> $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/deploy_config_channel_files')
> $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/config_hostname')
> $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/config_network')
> $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/install_admin_users')
> $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/install_jdk_6u17')
> $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/install_tsm')
> $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/config_rhn_and_update')
> $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/config_ntpd')
>
> groupadd -g 19300 www
> useradd -u 30 -g 19300 -c "web hosting" -d /web/www www
>
> mkdir /web/webstore
> chmod 750 /web/webstore
> chown www:www /web/webstore
>
> ) >> /root/ks-post.log 2>&1
>
>
> If I use cobbler profile getks, should I see the snippets, or should I
> see the expanded contents of the snippets?  If I should see the expanded
> code, what would cause me not to?
>
> --
> David Rock
> david at graniteweb.com
>

Sorry, David, I've never used cobbler directly so I can't comment.

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