RE: Kickstart Configuration file validation

Cool, finally a tool ;)  I didn't even know this existed! 


Chip Shabazian
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:kickstart-list-bouncesredhat.com] On Behalf Of
Chris Lumens
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:07 AM
To: kickstart-listredhat.com
Subject: Re: Kickstart Configuration file validation

> Is there any way to validate the contents of a
Kickstart Configuration

> file prior to installation? I have an install that
fails with an 
> anaconda messages that appears to be related to the
config file.

If you're using RHEL5 or FC6 or later, you can use
ksvalidator, which is
part of the pykickstart package.  Of course, you'll need
another machine
to do this.

Also, ksvalidator can't detect problems like incorrect
partitioning.  It
can only check the syntax of your kickstart file and some
things that it
doesn't need the installation environment to do.

- Chris

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> Cool, finally a tool ;)  I didn't even know this
existed! 

I need to be louder about things like this.  I think it's
one of the
really nice things about pykickstart.  Now you can actually
check your
ks file instead of shoving it through anaconda over and over
again until
it works.

Well like I said, it does have its limitations.  It's really
mainly
useful for checking syntax.  All the partitioning stuff
can't be checked
until install time because ksvalidator doesn't know what
disks are going
to be present.  Packaging probably could be checked, but
that's going to
be tricky.  Scripts can't really be checked for correctness.
 But I'm
all for any suggestions on how to make this or other tools
useful.

- Chris

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