Bug 707941

Summary: Migration Guide incorrectly says that kickstart script sections without "%end" fail
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Tim Jackson <tjackson>
Component: doc-Migration_GuideAssignee: Laura Bailey <lbailey>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 6.0CC: jskeoch
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Description Tim Jackson 2011-05-26 11:43:09 UTC 
Description of problem:
In the RHEL6 Migration Guide it is stated (sec 2.2.2.5):

"The %packages, %post, %pre and %traceback sections must have an %end option at the end. Previously, these sections had no explicit ending token, but ended where another began. Starting in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, using %end is required. Files without an %end token will fail."

This does not appear to match reality; kickstarts that don't contain %end sections don't fail, but run correctly. They do, however, throw a deprecation warning. This is actually fortunate, since Satellite does not currently generate compliant kickstarts - see bug #641248 .