On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:21:44PM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: You have to imagine that the appliance will boot with just the files specified directly from the RPMs (ie. the %files sections). Any other adjustments done by %pre or %post scripts will not be done. Before you can boot the appliance (see [1]) you need to write a /init script, which could jump into the existing initscripts/systemd/..., or it could do its own thing. We do our own thing in libguestfs[2]. Therefore, this /init script can do all the operations that are needed by the IPA %post scripts, such as (from the scripts you sent me) enabling services, running ipa-upgradeconfig, and doing selinux tweaks. Interestingly Debian debootstrap has the same problem, and what they do is to collect together all the scripts and generate an init script automatically which does all the required operations. We don't do this in febootstrap because we wanted a bit more control for libguestfs. Rich. [1] https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/tip-creating-throwaway-appliances-w... [2] http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=appliance/init;hb=HEAD -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora