[Fwd: Re: smart installation not scriptable]

[Gavin Chester]

This post came to me only, it appears, but I'm sure it was meant for the
list:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash at gmail.com>
> To: Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: smart installation not scriptable
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:50:26 -0800
> 
> 
>         > > smart update" requires no other input unless you want to
>         specify 
>         > > particular channel[s]
>         >
>         > It does *on first install*, and this is my problem.  I'm
>         trying to
>         > automate installation after a fresh installation of a
>         distro:
>         >
>         >
>         > [root at vz111 /]# yum install smart -y
>         
>         -snip-
>         
>         > Dependency Installed: fedora-package-config-smart.i386
>         0:8-10 smart.i386
>         > 0:0.51-49.fc8
>         > Complete!
>         > [root at vz111 /]# smart update
>         > New channel 'Fedora - i386 - Development (development)'
>         detected. 
>         > Include it? (Y/n):
>         
>         -etc, etc-
>         
>         There really is HUGE advantage, imho, to having the channels
>         added
>         automatically for a given distro after installing smart.
>         Adding selected
>         channels afterwards is an extra step that would defeat the
>         purpose of 
>         you having an automated install of smart :-/ So, sounds to me
>         like you
>         need to hack the script that invokes the channel adding so
>         that it is
>         NOT interactive but done automatically at first-time run. How
>         you do
>         that I don't know, but the developers may point you in the
>         right
>         direction when they have time to follow the thread - or you
>         could trawl
>         thru' the code for clues 8-)
>         
>         Gavin
>         
> 
> I'm scripting smart more than just about anyone I know at this point
> but I can only guess
> at the solution because I don't need this. 
> 
> Disclaimer: This is only a guess!
> 
> I'd yum install smart -y  and then have my script delete the channels
> files in /etc/smart and then add the channels I need
> by using "smart channel --add < channels.file".
> 
> I think this would work because it shouldn't ask you for any channels
> on startup. Might as well add your mirrors too this way. 
> You'd have to try this to see if it actually works though but my guess
> is if there's nothing in /etc/smart/channels I don't think it will
> prompt you
> to add them to the database.
> 
> Grant