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[Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

It has a fairly large usage message, but heres what you do.

run cast with all the spells you want to remember the settings for

run chrootgen.sh backup --backup_dir /path/to/somewhere

copy /path/to/somewhere to other machines

on the other machines:
run chrootgen.sh restore --restore_dir /path/to/somewhere
run cast again with those spells

What it does is copy all the stored persistent answers and dependency
info, then when you cast those spells, cast will see the answers you've
already given from the other machine.

Of course, theres no stopping spells from doing regular queries and not
checking for a default anywhere. However, as far as I know the cauldron
team uses this for their iso generation process and gets consistent results.

-Andrew

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:11:39AM +0300, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> In bug #10680 I requested that cast be made completely scriptable - that 
> is, 
> that it could run without interrupts from start to finish by answering all 
> prompts (optional_depends, config_query, init.d/xinetd, 
> install_config_file, 
> etc.) on the fly, based on how it's told to react beforehand.
> 
> I was told that by Andrew that chrootgen already does this, but I haven't 
> found out how that would work. For me it seems chrootgen only does what its 
> name implies, installs stuff in chroot. This is not what I'm after.
> 
> But prove me wrong. How would I for instance use chrootgen (in a normal 
> environment, not in a chroot) to install kdebase so that all 
> optional_depends 
> prompts and the init.d script prompt would be answered the way I want to?
> 
> Juuso
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