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| 14:14.37 | jsmith | plarsen: I'm back now... What's up? |
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| 16:06.12 | jsmith | plarsen: ping? |
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| 16:39.19 | plarsen | jsmith, hey - just got back from lunch |
| 16:40.03 | plarsen | jsmith, I had a ks question; a fellow on fedora got a wierd issue with ks not finding the repository ($basearch is empty). and I wasn't sure how that's set. |
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| 19:03.32 | GGD | hey stickster |
| 19:04.24 | GGD | good to see you last wekekned |
| 19:09.56 | stickster | absolutely! |
| 19:19.26 | GGD | :) and yes i am migrating all my machines to either fedora or centos or min |
| 19:19.27 | GGD | mint |
| 19:19.47 | GGD | any ideas? |
| 19:32.16 | stickster | GGD: Ideas about... ? |
| 19:32.29 | stickster | I would recommend CentOS for a machine you really want to set and forget |
| 19:32.39 | stickster | Like, for several years (other than critical updates) |
| 19:32.58 | GGD | ok... for a very good desktop |
| 19:33.04 | GGD | i already am looking at centos |
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| 19:34.25 | GGD_ | stickster? |
| 19:34.28 | GGD_ | did you get my last? |
| 19:34.35 | GGD_ | we are getting some weather up here |
| 19:34.42 | stickster | us too |
| 19:35.06 | stickster | CentOS is best for machines where you can do without the latest technology, and you don't want to upgrade often |
| 19:35.23 | stickster | (assuming this is a personal machine, not something you want to run for a business or with real support) |
| 19:35.43 | GGD_ | centos for a personal machine? |
| 19:35.55 | stickster | If it's something like a personal server. |
| 19:36.00 | stickster | I have a web server at home which is CentOS. |
| 19:36.04 | GGD_ | ive never thought of that as i thought that OS was strickly a Server OS |
| 19:36.05 | stickster | But i use Fedora on my laptop and my workstations. |
| 19:36.27 | stickster | CentOS is not strictly a server OS any more than Fedora is strictly a desktop OS |
| 19:36.36 | stickster | It's Linux, with lots of choices. :-) |
| 19:36.49 | stickster | CentOS has a very long lifecycle, and does not get the newest software. |
| 19:36.53 | stickster | Fedora is the opposite. |
| 19:47.08 | plarsen | jsmith, ping? |
| 20:46.05 | jsmith | plarsen: Re-pong |
| 20:46.18 | plarsen | jsmith, did you see what I wrote earlier today? |
| 20:46.43 | jsmith | plarsen: Just scrolling back now |
| 20:47.21 | jsmith | plarsen: Ah, gotcha... was he using $basearch directly in the ks file, or having the ks install a .repo file that had $basearch in it? |
| 20:47.37 | plarsen | directly in the ks file |
| 20:47.55 | plarsen | jsmith, http://fpaste.org/nJfO/ |
| 20:48.06 | jsmith | plarsen: Yeah, that's not gonna work |
| 20:48.34 | plarsen | :) yeah. I sorta saw/knew that - but not sure what he was trying to do was even possible |
| 20:48.58 | plarsen | Meaning, where would it get the arch information from? |
| 20:49.08 | plarsen | I got him to hardcode the arch instead. That worked ;) |
| 20:49.16 | plarsen | Just wanted to know what the "right" solution was. |
| 20:50.07 | jsmith | In the %pre section, you could run "uname -i" and save that to a variable |
| 20:50.14 | jsmith | Then use that variable |
| 20:50.56 | plarsen | that'll be set before interpreting the repo lines? |
| 20:51.04 | jsmith | export ARCH="`uname -i`" |
| 20:51.07 | jsmith | Correct |
| 20:51.08 | plarsen | The fun thing is that $basearch is directly passed on the URL |
| 20:51.21 | plarsen | its not blank as I would expect from an empty variable. |
| 20:51.26 | jsmith | Correct... *yum* translates $basearch into the architecture |
| 20:51.43 | jsmith | But if the kickstart tries to interpret it first, then it translates it to an empty variable |
| 20:52.49 | jsmith | Actually, let me make a correction |
| 20:52.53 | plarsen | well, according to the http log when I did it, $basearch is litteraly sent as "$basearch" to the web server |
| 20:53.10 | jsmith | I forgot that variables don't persist from %pre to %post |
| 20:53.31 | jsmith | Right, so in that case, anaconda *isn't* replacing it, it's just not getting set at all. |
| 20:53.36 | plarsen | jsmith, isn't repos done before post? |
| 20:53.49 | jsmith | (anaconda likes variables to be done like ${VARIABLE_NAME}, if I recall) |
| 20:53.54 | plarsen | right - it looks like it takes what you write in the url quite litterately |
| 20:53.59 | jsmith | plarsen: Correct |
| 20:55.55 | plarsen | jsmith, thanks :) |