Description of problem: There is no way to get the location of the kickstart file passed to livecd-creator in the %post% or %pre% scripts. The scripts are run from livecd-creator's cache directory, which may not have any relationship to the path of the kickstart file. It would be helpful if an environment variable, such as KICSTART_FILE, that identified the location of the kickstart file was passed to the scripts. The most obvious use case for this would be to copy the kickstart file into the ISO image being created by livecd-creator. Another use case would be distributing an archive including a kickstart file and other files to be copied into an ISO image to build an ISO image of a Fedora Remix with livecd-creator. Similarly, this would allow Fedora Remix (and official Fedora Spin) live CD ISO images to be fully reproducible with livecd-creator by including the kickstart file in the ISO image and copying customized files from the old ISO image (by locating them relative to the kickstart file) into the new one. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20 How reproducible: always
Created attachment 943689 [details] patch for parser.py in pykickstart for /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pykickstart/parser.py
Created attachment 943691 [details] patch for creator.py in python-imgcreate for /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py
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