Hi Hans-Joachim

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On 8/16/2011 at 14:41, Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote: ... DVD containing a new patch-set is distributed. This all works fine until we (Novell) release a patch that will install packages from the installation repository, which obviously does not exist on these servers. To prevent that problem from ever occurring ...

IMHO the only clean way to solve the problem is to add these packages as well to the patch DVD.

Thank you for the suggestion. That is actually what we are doing today. But I wanted to eliminate the trivial step of having to add packages in addition to the patches each time we create a new patch DVD. Hacking more around showed that it is possible to mount e.g. /dev/sr0 in a post-script, copy the files to the installed system and unmount it again. However - since the zypper commands have to be done in an init-script - the whole operation can be done there like this : ... <![CDATA[ mkdir /tmp/instdvd if `mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /tmp/instdvd > /dev/null 2>&1`; then mkdir -v /var/instsrc cp -var /tmp/instdvd/* /var/instsrc/ umount /tmp/instdvd rm /tmp/instdvd fi # Remove existing DVD installation source /usr/bin/zypper sd 1 # Add installation source repo on disk /usr/bin/zypper ar -t yast -n "SLES11-SP1 installation source" file:///var/instsrc/ sles-instsrc ]]> ... Obviously, an initial add-on product with just rpm that just does the copying, would be the optimal way - since another add-on product might have caused a media change. But inventing that solution would be an overkill... :) //Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org