[Revisor-users] Question about kickstart scripting and chroot

[Jason Grant]

I'm new to chroot'd environments (and python), and am trying to
understand what can be done (and also what should be avoided) from
within a kickstart %post script.  It seems as though the invocation of
these scripts from python uses /var/tmp/revisor as a replacement for my
system's / directory, and so if I invoke passwd,
only /var/tmp/revisor/etc/passwd is manipulated, and the system
environment is not damaged.  Is this basically how it works?

The chroot filesystem also mounts /sys, /proc, etc., too, presumably to
feign a real system, but I am not sure if this introduces operations to
be avoided in my scripts.

Explanations appreciated.

Jason.