Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (51 mails)

[Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> What does autoyast use the .pat files for? I think it has something to
> do with the packages,

.pat files are definitions of patterns. You can imagine a pattern like some 
meta-container for the packages i.e. it is not only a dumb group of  packages 
needed for certain functionality of the system (e.g. LAMP server pattern 
contains apache, mysql, php modules, ...), but it also has its own 
dependencies, you can install/delete a whole pattern etc.

> but why are they listed there if they are listed
> also in the xml control file?

I'm afraid I'm now "lost in translation" and I don't get this part. Listed 
where? Any example control file to hand? 

In general (as implied above), in a control file if you install a pattern( in 
<software> section, <pattern> tag), it'll pull the necessary packages in. No 
need to mention them explicitely as <package> then again.

hB.
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