Re: confg-kickstart web interface

[Brent Fox <bfox redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 16:59, seth vidal wrote:
> > Yes I understand - see original post - there are several CGI projects 
> > out there that generate the ks file more or less
> > automatically.  Thats the Output backend if you will,  however  I need 
> > the user input _frontend_ for customized installations on various types
> > of machines.  For that Ive got to have the detail that s-c-kickstart 
> > provides.  And yes Ive also seen the nice PHP frontend you guys did a 
> > while back. 
> > But as I said above that amounts to  fork.
> 
> 
> Does s-c-kickstart use a class to store the data for the ks.cfg?

Yes.  It uses a class called kickstartData.py to contain all the
kickstart data.

--Brent

> 
> If you could use that  and abstract it out so that a cgi could interact
> with the same thing it'd be easiest, I'd bet.
> 
> I think the 'sending the kickstart to the client' and 'creating the
> ks.cfg' should be separate parts - no point in putting too much in a
> single application.
> 
> -sv
> 
>