F19: system-config-kickstart

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 01/30/2013 11:10 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:00:31 -0500
> Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net> wrote:
>
>> Much is made of the great new anaconda introduced in Fedora 18. But,
>> this great new anaconda completely broke system-config-kickstart
>> because old-anaconda code used but s-c-k disappeared.
>>
>> Obviously there was little or no testing of s-c-k or perhaps nobody
>> uses it and/or nobody cares.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859928
>>
>> Perhaps there needs to be a F19 Feature which either fixes it or
>> eliminates this package.  The current situation is just plain
>> ridiculous.
> ...snip...
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AnacondaNewUI_Followup
>
> ...
>      * Make system-config-kickstart work again. The removal of
> iw/GroupSelector.py from anaconda caused it to break. (#859928)
> ...
>
>
Good!  Thank you.

Here is some unsolicited suggestions.

I only became interested in kickstart when I felt that the Fedora 18 
installer was not meeting my needs.  This was especially true installing 
(and re-installing) test configurations into virtual systems.  Taking a 
look at s-c-k under Fedora 17, I believe that it mostly has the right 
options.

Two areas that should be expanded beyond what is available in the 
anaconda gui:

1.  File systems (and especially btrfs) and how things are configured.

2. Software selection ... more like what is available with yumex and the 
add/remove software application.

Then again, at this point I just might stick with the old standard unix 
tool for configuration files: a text editor.

Gene