Bug 736269 - Kickstart script ordering - incorrect instructions in kickstart/KickstartScriptEdit.do
Summary: Kickstart script ordering - incorrect instructions in kickstart/KickstartScri...
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Server
Version: 541
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jan Pazdziora
QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List
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Blocks: 462714
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Reported: 2011-09-07 08:42 UTC by Tim Jackson
Modified: 2015-05-29 20:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-05-29 20:10:06 UTC
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Description Tim Jackson 2011-09-07 08:42:30 UTC
Description of problem:
Quoting from kickstart/KickstartScriptEdit.do:

"First, commands related to RHN Satellite will automatically be performed (for example, esystem registration to RHN Satellite). Next, the non-chroot post script will be executed, and finally the post script will be executed"

This does not match reality. A user-created non-chroot post script gets executed *before* the built-in Satellite registration (via the cobbler snippet redhat_register).

There is also a typo in the above, as it says "...esystem registration" instead of "...system registration"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellite 5.4.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a kickstart profile
2. create a non-chroot post script containing "# TEST-NONCHROOT-POST"
3. view the resulting kickstart file
  
Actual results:
Observe that "# TEST-NONCHROOT-POST" is shown *before* the section which says:

"# begin cobbler snippet
# begin Red Hat management server registration"


Expected results (if the documentation was right):
"# TEST-NONCHROOT-POST" is shown *after* the section which says:

"# begin cobbler snippet
# begin Red Hat management server registration"

Additional info:
It's a good thing that non-chroot post runs before the Satellite built-in stuff, so IMO it's better to change the instructions to match the functionality rather than the other way around.


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