[SCRIPT] ksmono-izer, was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Inheritance in kickstart and package removals

[Douglas McClendon]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a Xfce spin of Fedora available at 
> http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-xfce.ksa which as you 
> can see inherits the base desktop kickstart file which removes wget. I 
> have been trying to add it back in my kickstart file but wget is not in 
> the image created by livecd-creator. I have been able to reproduce this 
> consistently.
> 
> Seth Vidal on IRC commented that urlgrabber would serve the same purpose 
> as wget and of course curl is also there but regardless of value of wget 
> in the Xfce spin, this seems to be a bug that I can't add back packages 
> that are removed in the base kickstart file I am inheriting from. Comments?

FWIW attached is a simple script I put together to use pykickstart to 
generate a monolithic kickstart file from a multi-file (include-using) 
kickstart file.  It may shed some light on what pykickstart is doing 
under the covers...

basic usage: ksmono-izer --output=out.ks input.ks

-dmc
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