On 8/12/11 1:07 PM, "Erico Mendonça" wrote:

I agree, it *should* pick up the latest version... but it doesn't because the third-party package was built with a wrong (forced) architecture. Plus, it's from a different supplier.

Case in point:

sudo-1.6.9p17-21.3.1.i586.rpm (original from SLES11SP1 media)

versus

sudo-1.8.1-3.sles11.i386.rpm (from sudo.ws)

However, the package will install and work nicely if upgraded via rpm -Uvh manually.

Ah, I see. But arguably they're not the "same" :) I'm not sure there's a clean way to do it, but more knowledgable voices may chime in. We manage our repositories such that what's presented during the autoyast makes sense with the selection criteria... and once or twice have even rebuilt rpm's so they play nicely. We've seen this with some third party video driver rpm's, for instance. Sorry, not a lot of help... Tim -- Tim Kirby 651-605-9074 trk@cray.com Cray Inc. Information Systems -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org

Having just spoken to the subject, I thought I'd throw this out. We just had some new desktops delivered and the orderers have sent us 790's because the 760 and 780 optiplexes are no more. It won't autoyast because it has no network. How can that be? Stupid, the Vendor/Device ID pair has been changed and it's not detecting correctly. We are supposed to be able to use the e1000 driver, but we're not having a lot of luck right now. Just wondering if anyone has come up with a magic incantation that doesn't involve recompiling to work around such a situation. Not that we can't recompile, rebuild etc. We just don't wanna. <aurgh> Tim -- Tim Kirby 651-605-9074 trk@cray.com Cray Inc. Information Systems -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org

Duh. Don't know why I said "Video driver". This is Ethernet, of course. On 8/12/11 3:50 PM, "Erico Mendonça" wrote:

Are you using openSUSE or SLES?

SLED11 SP1

A Driver Update Disk has been released recently for SLES11 SP1 with a more recent kernel that could be useful in this case.

Indeed. Thanks for the hint... Tim -- Tim Kirby 651-605-9074 trk@cray.com Cray Inc. Information Systems -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote:

You can extend the autoyast.xml to not install

 <software>    <remove-packages config:type="list">      <package>sudo</package>   </remove-packages>  </software>

 And use a init script to install sudo via zypper and lock the package afterwards to prevent overwriting.

Thanks Hans! That did it! After placing "sudo" in the remove-packages section, I used this script (running as a chroot-script): ====== #!/bin/bash mount /dev/cdrom /mnt zypper -n rl sudo zypper -n --no-gpg-checks --no-cd -p /mnt/misc in sudo-1.8.1-3.sles11.i386 zypper -n al sudo ====== I had to mount the DVD manually. Zypper couldn't mount the media if I just referenced the package (still don't know why, the repo is correctly configured). -- -- Erico -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org