Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (46 mails)

[Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Uwe Gansert wrote:

> On Montag, 10. Dezember 2007, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> > We created a few extra repositories (using mrepo) and add these with a
> > rug-command during the postinstall. The next thing we would like to do is
> > install some of the packages from these repositories in the postinstall.
> >
> > Sadly, running 'yast -i' does not work, because of an error message that
> > yast is already runing or the package database is being lock by another
> > yast:
>
> either run "yast -i" in an init-scripts section or set "network_needed" to
> true in your rug-command-script and add the packages you want to install in
> the post-packages section

Is there a standard way of doing this with init-scripts ? It looks very
ugly to do this in an init-script that is only used one time while we
could do it as part of the post-install.

I do not understand the "network_needed in rug-command-script" or what the
post-packages section is. Do you have a best-practices document that
explains this in depth for NLD9 and SLES10 ?


> > So what is the best way to install packages in the postinstall from a
> > repository without adding the packages directly to the installation
> > media.
>
> adding an <add-on> section to the profile and use the <packages> or
> <post-packages> section.

That is not possible for 2 reasons:

 - the create_package_descr command does not work on SLES10. Our
   autoinstall server is a SLES10 server and we have to deploy both NLD9
   and SLES10 systems (with additional packages).

 - the <addons> and <addon> tags do not allow to specify another
   repository that is build with the genIS_PLAINcache command (which we
   are using for NLD9.

The aim is to create a repository (on SLES10) that we can subscribe to and
use during the post-install section as well as in YaST when the system is
being used.

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