Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (70 mails)

["Lonni J Friedman" <netllama@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/6/06, Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:34, David Werner wrote:
>
> > Today I tried an Installation of RC1 of 10.2.
> > To me it looks like that the DTDs of 10.2
> > currently (RC1) do not include:
>
> autoyast no longer uses DTDs but RNG files (they are created from RNC files
> which are human readable).
> http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/Profile.DTD.html
> The RNG files are in /usr/share/YaST2/schema/autoyast/rng
> They are a lot better than the DTDs were but I'm afraid, they are still not
> complete.
> I hope we will have them complete on SLES10 SP1

At the risk of being labeled a troll, I have to ask.  Why is autoyast
being reinvented from scratch with every single release?  Every single
release has non-trivial changes which lead to non-ending pain &
suffering.  Is it too much to expect that a working autoyast.xml from
one release continue to work, or at least not fail fatally, in the
next release?

Everytime a new SuSE/SLE* release comes out I end up spending 1+ hours
having to debug everything that got broken/changed in autoyast from
the previous release.

With Redhat/FC, I just drop in the kickstart file from the previous
release and everything just works(tm).  I yearn for the day when SuSE
can get this figured out.

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