The %end tag causes errors

whitivery co55-sy1t at dea.spamcon.org
Fri Oct 1 05:43:35 UTC 2010


whitivery <co55-sy1t at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:

>In a CentOS 5.5 kickstart file, adding %end to mark the end of the
>%packages, %pre, or %post sections causes an error.  In the first two
>cases the kickstart fails and stops.  For the %post it gives an error
>message but it has already run all of my post steps so it doesn't have a
>functional impact.
>
>Without the %end lines, the kickstart file works fine.
>
>Details:
>
>- %end on %packages: traceback starts with:
>    File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 733, in ?
>  and near end says KickstartParseError
>  and identifies a kickstart line (which doesn't correspond
>  to a %end)
>
>- %end on %pre: traceback starts with:
>    File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ?
>
>- %end on %post: my steps work but at end:
>  {temporary ks filename}: line 490: fg: no job control
>
>
>I don't see anaconda identify its version, but the RPM included
>with CentOS 5.5 is anaconda-11.1.2.209-1.el5.

I'm replying to myself: For some reason answers to this showed up
in the thread titled "Re: Kickstart-list Digest, Vol 79, Issue 11".

Per those and a private email: basically, %end is in Fedora (and
has been for years), but still is not in RHEL/CentOS.





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