On 2014-02-18 08:31, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 07:43 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
Very much +1. Putting it in kickstarts is a worse tying problem than
putting it in a package: it ties this configuration mechanism to a
system for creating deliverables, which is what kickstart is. We need
to
be moving away from having configuration in kickstarts, not adding
more.
Hear, hear. Reminds me of this comment in fedora-live-base.ks:
%post
# FIXME: it'd be better to get this installed from a package
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys << EOF
[...]
Has been there from day 1 :-) Its hard to change your ways when it is
so
easy to just continue the existing hack...
I actually proposed a moderately large overhaul of the live image
kickstarts some years back which would've gone some way to solving at
least some of the cruft:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739446
it never got adopted because it wasn't perfect (only, you know, better)
and is now wildly out of date and I just can't work up the energy to
rediff it. :/
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