Perl is not available during in RHEL 6 kickstart %pre sections, will that functionality come back? How about %post?

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Issue

  • Perl is not availabe during in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kickstart pre sections. Is that functionality just temporarily missing and will come back? Or was a decision made to explicitly avoid Perl for pre scripts?
  • How about using perl for %post sections?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • kickstart deployments

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