Having looked at the real pungi, what do y'all use to make kickstart files?

[James Laska]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 13:54 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 01:29 PM, James Laska wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 03:24 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
> >> Hving given up on Revisor, I looked at pungi.py and stuff and see that
> >> it really wants a kickstart file?
> >>
> >> Are these the kickstart files in the spins-ks package (whatever its
> >> real name is)?
> >>
> >> Is there currently a tool to make kickstart files?
> > I use snake to manage a lot of kickstart files.  It allows me to write
> > them once, and they work across all distros (RHEL->rawhide).
> >
> > https://fedorahosted.org/snake/
> 
> There are two gotchas that I've come across when you write ks from scratch.
> 
> First is that when un commenting groups you will have to use double ## 
> as in ##@foo and you will now need to end the ks file on %end
> 
> I guess using tools like snake take care of such problem between releases.

Indeed, snake is intended to abstract the differences between kickstart
versions so that you don't have to manage all the changes, but can rely
on pykickstart to handle it for you.

Thanks,
James

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