[Spacewalk-list] Changeing variables from within snippets

[Jan Hutař]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:00:52 +1000 Matt Bryant
<matt at the-bryants.net> wrote:

> Was wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction.
> 
> Currently trying to unify our interactive/non-interactive
> kickstart file so I have added a varaible buildType to the
> kickstart profile in spcewalk which has a default value,
> 
> This can obviously  be overriden by cobbler if i define a
> system with the appropriate ksmeta input. What i would also
> like to do is potentially override the value based on user
> input from %pre stage.
> 
> So far nothing I have tried works.
> 
> The pre script is python snack script which prompts for
> buildType ..
> 
> I have tried the following
> 
> * just setting the value ie buildType = <input>
> 
> * writing the string '#set buildType = "<input>"' then #/%
> include the file
> 
> * Same as above but with  '#set global buildType
> 
> 
> Is there in fact a way to update variables within kickstart
> via user input ??
> 
> rgds
> 
> Matt B.

I would ask this Anaconda (== system installer) developers. I do
not have a clue.

Regards,
Jan



-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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