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Bug 18110

Summary:	RFE: Don't strip comments from %post script - ignore instead
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Karl Hakimian <hakimian>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	7.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Karl Hakimian 2000-10-02 16:42:26 UTC

The documentation says that anaconda will ignore comments. Instead,
it actually strips them from the file including from the %post
section. This breaks post scripts such as

cat <<EOF >/etc/init.d/service
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: - 95 10
# description: local startup script
#
do something...
EOF

This can be worked around with something like

sed -n 's/^-- //p' <<EOF >/etc/init.d/service
-- #!/bin/sh
-- #
-- # chkconfig: - 95 10
-- # description: local startup script
-- #
-- do something...
EOF

But that is a bit of a pain, when just passing the comments would make
life a lot easier.

Comment 1 Erik Troan 2000-11-21 18:17:17 UTC

Fixed in CVS. Left blank lines in as well.

Comment 2 Brock Organ 2000-12-12 22:11:52 UTC

this failed in test w/the qa1212.1 tree:

lang en_US
network --bootproto dhcp
nfs --server porkchop --dir /mnt/redhat/test/qa1212.1/i386
keyboard "us"
zerombr yes
clearpart --all
part / --size 2000 --asprimary 
part swap --size 256 --asprimary 
install
mouse genericps/2
timezone America/New_York
xconfig 
rootpw xxxxxxxx
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
lilo --location mbr --append "mem=60m"
%packages
@Base
@X Window System

%post

cat <<EOF >/tmp/foo.test
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: - 95 10
# description: local startup script
#
echo "foo.test"
EOF

fails with a traceback:

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 346, 
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 605,
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 566,
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 391, in readKickstart
if args[0]=="%post" or args[0]=="%pre":

IndexError: list index out of range

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2001-01-09 23:40:31 UTC

Should be fixed according to ewt.

Comment 4 Brock Organ 2001-01-10 21:26:24 UTC

verified fix in qa0110.0 test tree ...

Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2001-07-17 14:12:47 UTC

*** Bug 47343 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2001-07-17 14:15:48 UTC

No no no..  Not a dupe, 18810, not 18110..  duh..  sorry.