8.6. Copying Arbitrary Files Onto the Media

With --copy-dir, you can specify a path Revisor should copy onto the media.

Installation Media

In the case of installation media, the path specified with --copy-dir will be copied recursively to the files/ sub-directory at the root of the ISO image (or the first ISO image if you compose split media).

A few use-case examples:

If one kickstart profile is not enough for you to deploy the product onto your systems, create a directory that holds multiple kickstart files and specify the path to that directory using --copy-dir. The kickstart files now end up available to the installation procedures as cdrom:/files/*.ks, and can thus be used by specifying them on the kernel cmdline (ks=cdrom:/files/profile1.ks), or, when used in combination with --isolinux-cfg from the Isolinux Plugin, can be added as an option in the isolinux menu.
If you have files or scripts that need to be copied onto, or run on, the installed system before it attempts to reboot and operate normally, you can use --copy-dir to make these files and scripts available during the installation and copy or execute them from either %pre or %post scripts.

Live Media

In the case of live media, the path specified with --copy-dir will be copied recursively onto the root directory (/) of the live media filesystem (which is probably loop-mounted onto /var/tmp/revisor/).

If, for example, you want to copy a home directory onto the live media, and the home directory you want to copy is at /home/user1/ on the composing system, you copy this directory so that the root of that new directory has a sub-directory home/ which in turn contains a sub-directory user1/:

$ mkdir -p /tmp/something/home/
$ cp -a /home/user1 /tmp/something/home/.
$ revisor [options] --copy-dir /tmp/something/