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Bug 1604418

Summary: /root/NETBOOT_METHOD.TXT is not populated if perl is not in the installation
Product: [Retired] Beaker Reporter: Dan Callaghan <dcallagh>
Component: generalAssignee: Martin Styk <mastyk>
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Description Dan Callaghan 2018-07-19 22:36:15 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
25.5

How reproducible:
somewhat

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run a minimal recipe on Fedora 28 without /distribution/install
(I saw this when testing /distribution/check-install, but should reproduce with /distribution/dummy also)

Actual results:
During kickstart %post:
++ perl -n '-e/netboot_method=([^\s]+)/ && print $1' /proc/cmdline
/tmp/ks-script-p1kvtl6_: line 68: perl: command not found
+ netboot_method=
+ '[' -n '' ']'

/root/NETBOOT_METHOD.TXT is therefore not populated.

Expected results:
Should still work even if perl is not dragged into the installation package set by anything.

Additional info:
Doesn't reproduce on RHEL <= 7, perhaps because perl is in the minimal install (or a transitive dep of something that is). Whereas Fedora has been aggressively minimizing its package set. I imagine it will become increasingly easy to have a Fedora installation with no perl package present.

We probably need to just use grep or awk instead.
Comment 1 Martin Styk 2019-03-26 09:46:11 UTC 
Beaker 26.4 has been released.