Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (101 mails)

[Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I want to inform you, that we are going to have an incompatibility in the
autoyast profile for SLES10 to older autoyast profiles like those for
SLES9.
SLES10 no longer supports "selections" but uses "patterns" now. Autoyast
will not be able to convert selections into patterns and so you have to
do that on your own.

So if you want to use a SLES9 autoyast profile to install a SLES10
server, you have to change the <software> section from selections to
patterns. That means, you have to remove all <addon> entries and the
<base> entry. Patterns are configured like this:

 <software>
   <patterns config:type="list">
     <pattern>directory_server</pattern>
     <pattern>...</pattern>
   </patterns>
 </software>

SLES10 will always install a minumum set of software, so even with an
empty <software> section in the autoyast profile, you'll be able to
install a SLES10. It's recommended to use the autoyast UI that comes
with SLES10 to configure your profile with patterns.
From the autoyast point of view, patterns are quite similar to selections
but not every selection has an equivalent pattern - that's why autoyast
will not convert between those values.

The <packages> section is still the same and will work.

SUSE Linux 10.1 still supports selections. If you want to use the same
profile for SLES and for SUSE Linux, you must use rules to deal with two
separate <software> sections, depending on the product you install at
the moment.

If you have questions, feel free to ask here on the mailinglist.

Here is the list of patterns that exist for SLES10 Beta7. That list
might change but I hope you get an impression what patterns are:

Basis-Devel
WBEM
apparmor
base
ccb
default
dhcp_dns_server
directory_server
file_server
gateway_server
gnome
ha_sles
kde
lamp_server
mail_server
oracle_server
print_server
sap_server
x11
xen_server


-- 
ciao, Uwe Gansert

Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
e-mail: uwe.gansert@xxxxxxx, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0,
Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de