[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart Snippets in Post Scripts

[David Rock]

* Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> [2010-08-07 13:18]:
> I maybe misunderstanding but in a kickstart the only place you can put
> scripts (and snippets are effectively just pieces of a script) is in
> either the pre or post sections.
> 
> The syntax is $SNIPPET('snippet_name_here') and make sure that your
> snippet starts with '#raw' and ends with '#end raw'.
> 
> A good information source is
> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating.

Thanks.  I am currently running a couple more tests with #raw #end raw
in the snippets. I've been reading the KickstartTemplating page (and the
KickstartSnippets one) quite a bit.  That's mainly why I have the
confusion.  The implication is that snippets are for templates only.
Maybe I don't quite understand what a template really is.

I was looking to see what is actually getting generated, so I tried the
following to look at the profile:

cobbler profile getks --name=testprofile:1:CSC

and looking at the %post section I see:

%post
(
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/deploy_config_channel_files')
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/config_hostname')
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/config_network')
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/install_admin_users')
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/install_jdk_6u17')
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/install_tsm')
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/config_rhn_and_update')
$SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/config_ntpd')

groupadd -g 19300 www
useradd -u 30 -g 19300 -c "web hosting" -d /web/www www

mkdir /web/webstore
chmod 750 /web/webstore
chown www:www /web/webstore

) >> /root/ks-post.log 2>&1


If I use cobbler profile getks, should I see the snippets, or should I
see the expanded contents of the snippets?  If I should see the expanded
code, what would cause me not to?

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com