[Revisor-users] Some questions on comps.xml and kcikstart file

Alexander Todorov atodorov at redhat.com
Wed Nov 21 13:24:26 UTC 2007


Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Revisor just takes a kickstart file and parses all the options available 
> in kickstart. Depending on what it is Revisor needs to do with the 
> kickstart file however, some options will be used while others won't.
> 
> Usually when creating installation media, only the %packages section is 
> being used, though if you specify one of these options:
> 
> --kickstart-save=/path	# Saves the kickstart file to a file /path
> --kickstart-include	# Includes the kickstart file in the tree
>    --kickstart-default	# Sets the included kickstart file to be the
> 			  default option in the bootloader menu
> 
> Revisor takes these actions and all the configuration in the kickstart 
> file that doesn't necessarily looks useful for the actual compose of the 
> installation media, becomes useful when /using/ the installation media 
> -each in their own way.

Thanks for the info. That was what I was looking for.
I still think it is a good idea to have this documented in wiki/man/html
for the next generations.

Greetings,
Alexander.


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