Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (87 mails)

[Lars Stavholm <stava@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henrik Schmidt wrote:
> 1. 
> 
> I switched from addons with 10.0 to patterns with 10.2 but it does not work as 
> expected. If I use patterns and additional packages then autoinstall tries to 
> install packages first which will fail of course as vital files are missing 
> (sh, libz ...). 

Well, I had the same problem for a while, until I realized
that the actions of autoyast and the error messages were
all misleading. It turned out that I had some problems in
one of my own add on packages that made autoyast go bananas.
However, once the packaging problem was solved, it works
flawlessly.

I suggest you start without add ons (or updates) at all.

Then move on to one add on package and make pretty damn
sure that it is correctly built.

Also, when testing I've used network install using PXE
and autoinst.xml, but always set the confirm option to
true, so that the auto install stops for inspection/
confirmation before any real installation is done, but
after all setup is read and expanded. At that point,
make sure that the software section is OK, i.e. that
there's no conflicts that need manual intervention.
If there's problems, go to virtual terminal 2 and
inspect /var/log/YaST2/y2log for errors (or clues).

This way I've found that on 10.2 patterns works just fine,
I even get my heading for the addons visible in the autoyast
GUI when doing manual install over the network, so I can
select all add on packages or a mixed set or whatever.

Let me know if you need anything further.

Good Luck
/Lars

> Patterns are only installed correctly if I remove all additional <package> 
> definitions.
> 
> Expl : 
> 
> <software>
>   <patterns config:type="list">
>     <pattern>base</pattern>
>     <pattern>kde</pattern>
>   </patterns>
> </software>
> 
> will install base + kde but
> 
> <software>
>   <patterns config:type="list">
>     <pattern>base</pattern>
>     <pattern>kde</pattern>
>   </patterns>
>   <packages config:type="list">
>     <package>lynx</package>
>   </packages>
> </software>
> 
> will try to install lynx first and fails miserably. What do I miss ?
> 
> 2. With 9.3 I could set for grub :
> 
>        <global_entry>
>           <key>timeout</key>
>           <value config:type="integer">8</value>
>         </global_entry>
>  
> which did not work for 10.0 any longer. What do I miss here ?
> 
> Hope someone can help me.
> 
> Henrik Schmidt

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