Description of problem: SNAKE uses pykickstart to allow for kickstart templating and uses pykickstarts ability to version (RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5, devel) a kickstart object. There is support for creating and adding %pre, %post, and %traceback scripts, but no support exists for creating %include statements. This is needed for kickstart scenarios that need knowledge of the hardware being installed on (common for partitioning and %packages) The use case in question is trying to validate the ignoredisk stmt and --drives= parameter to clearpart. In order to test this, a %pre must be used which relies on list-harddrives. A snippet of my snake template is below... from pykickstart.parser import Script from pykickstart.constants import KS_SCRIPT_POST, KS_SCRIPT_PRE # import snake base kickstart object from installdefaults import InstallKs ks=InstallKs() script = ''' first="" remaining="" list-harddrives | while read LINE do if [ -z "$first" ]; then first=$1 else remaining="$1,$remaining" fi done # remove trailing ',' remaining=${remaining%%,} cat <<EOF>/tmp/ks.partinfo autopart clearpart --drives=$first ignoredisk --drives=$remaining ''' ks.scripts.append(Script(script, type=KS_SCRIPT_PRE)) What I want to add is something like the following ... Option#1 - include command (order matters) =========================================== ks.include(path="/tmp/ks.partinfo") Option#2 - include script (this seems odd) =========================================== ks.scripts.append(Script(path="/tmp/ks.partinfo") Option#3 - add **ksmeta to all commands and have includeFile =========================================== ks.autopart(autopart=True, includeFile="/tmp/ks.partinfo")
This should now be supported in pykickstart on commands, scripts, and packages objects. Passing preceededInclude=<path> to the constructors of any of these objects should get you what you're looking for. Probably could use better documentation for this, of course.
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