Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (36 mails)

[Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Dag Wieers wrote:

> We're autodeploying NLD9 and SLES10 systems, for both native and vmware
> instances. I succeeded in using rules and classes (after some nasty
> problems caused by differences in NLD9 and SLES10 control syntax).
>
> But I now have to add to the vmware-i386 class the boot option:
>
>         clock=pit
>
> and the vmware-x86_64 class the boot option:
>
>         notsc
>
> and I cannot find instructions on how to do this. Is there a file that
> contains the complete list of possibilities one could use inside a control
> file (for both NLD9 and SLES10 ?). That would be most welcome.

I found the kernel_parameters in the DTD and that will work.

But I have a follow-up question. Is there a way to do a negative match, or
specify an 'else' clause for a rule ?

Eg. when I have:

    <rule>
      <mac>
        <match>^000c29</match>
        <match_type>regex</match_type>
      </mac>
      <result>
        <profile>profiles/vmware.xml</profile>
      </result>
    </rule>

I would like to have an else-fallback. Or have a rule match everything
except ^000c29. And I know you can play with <continue> to stop
processing, but that is not an option in a complex environment.

Also is it possible to call 2 profiles from one rule ? In the case where
we do match with a vmware instance (mac ~= ^000c29) I want to call profile
vmware.xml and vmware-@arch@.xml, however that does not seem to work (and
I do not get a real error, I just see both are not being called).

Copying the profile twice doesn't work either:

    <rule> <!-- Check if this is VMware (based on MAC address) -->
      <mac>
        <match>^000c29</match>
        <match_type>regex</match_type>
      </mac>
      <result>
        <profile>profiles/vmware.xml</profile>
        <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue>
      </result>
    </rule>

    <rule> <!-- Check if this is VMware (based on MAC address) -->
      <mac>
        <match>^000c29</match>
        <match_type>regex</match_type>
      </mac>
      <arch>*</arch>
      <result>
        <profile>profiles/vmware-@arch@.xml</profile>
        <continue config:type="boolean">false</continue>
      </result>
    </rule>

It stops after vmware.xml (or it does not match the vmware-@arch@.xml
profile for some reason ?).
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