Hi,
i used AutoYast2 for Installation of a couple of 8.1 boxes (cloned)
and was satisfied with its operation, despite the lack of some
documentation i managed to figure out myself and partly fixed with
postinstall-scripts.
Now - in 8.2 - if found one thing that isn't working anymore. Services
i want to be enabled and started in some runlevels (runlevel-Editor)
do not get enabled anymore, e.g. i have an autoinst.xml that states
that apache should get started in runlevel 3 and 5 - but on the target
system, its still disabled, no symlinks to the rc-Directories have
been created. This is how the runlevel-section generated by
Autoinstall looks like:
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<runlevels>
<default>5</default>
<services config:type="list">
<service>
apache
3 5
</service>
<service>
lpd
3 5
</service>
<service>
nmb
3 5
</service>
<service>
smb
3 5
</service>
<service>
smbfs
</service>
</services>
</runlevels>
-8<---snip---
Interesting enough, smbfs, which i never need, gets disabled, which is
enabled by default after a fresh installation ... Anybody got any
idea?
BTW, a small problem also occurs with the hardware-clock setting. Even
if you configure the autoinst.xml for "clock in localtime", the
installation of the clone still defaults to UTC. Anyway - this can be
corrected in the cloned system by using the sysconfig-Editor to
generate the following setting:
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<sysconfig config:type="list">
HWCLOCK
/etc/sysconfig/clock
--localtime
</sysconfig>
-8<---snip---
Also - it is reasonable to delete the kernel of the master system from
which you clone from the list of installed packages (in most cases
k_dflt) as the cloned system being installed automatically chooses the
appropiate kernel, which can be - as in my case - k_smp, which leads
you to two installed kernels and a complaining package manager.
But anyway - i like the enhancements in the new version - but i don't
like the bugs ;-)
Greetings
Wolfgang
