July 2006 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

FYI: adding own RPMs to a SLES10 inst. source
by Uwe Gansert 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hi, here is a small documentation how to add own RPMs to a SLES10/SL10.1 installation source. To create a tree with RPMs in parallel of your other installation source, use at least version 20060418 of create_update_source.sh from my SUSE Homepage (http://www.suse.de/~ug). The latest autoyast2-utils RPM will contain that script too. You can find documentation on how to use that script on my homepage. After you have created the tree with your own RPMS, you have two options· to tell autoyast about that new installation source. Either in the autoyast profile like this: > <add-on> > <add_on_products config:type="list"> > <listentry> > <media_url>http://192.168.66.1/SLES10/updates</media_url> > <product>SuSE-Linux-Updates</product> > <product_dir>/</product_dir> > </listentry> > </add_on_products> > </add-on> You can do that with the autoyast UI on SLES10/SL10.1 too. Or another option is to create a file called "add_on_products" on the main installation source. So it looks like this (the "updates" directory was created by the script): > #:/space/SLES10 # tree -L 1 > . > |-- ARCHIVES.gz > |-- COPYING > |-- COPYING.de > |-- COPYRIGHT > |-- COPYRIGHT.de > |-- ChangeLog > |-- INDEX.gz > |-- LICENSE.TXT > |-- NEWS > |-- README > |-- README.BETA > |-- README.BETA.DOS > |-- README.DOS > |-- add_on_products > |-- boot > |-- content > |-- control.xml > |-- directory.yast > |-- docu > |-- dosutils > |-- gpg-pubkey-0dfb3188-41ed929b.asc > |-- gpg-pubkey-1d061a62-427a396f.asc > |-- gpg-pubkey-307e3d54-44201d5d.asc > |-- gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc > |-- gpg-pubkey-9c800aca-40d8063e.asc > |-- ls-lR.gz > |-- media.1 > |-- pubring.gpg > |-- suse > `-- updates > > #:/space/SLES10 # cat add_on_products > http://192.168.66.1/SLES10/updates With that file on the installation source, you don't need to specify the additional installation sources in the autoyast profile. You can mix those two options. So it's possible to specify one installation source in the autoyast profile and another one in the "add_on_products"-file. The "add_on_products"-file is not supported by autoyast in RC1 but will be with later versions. I hope that helps. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert(a)suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de

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Autoyast + SLED 10 RC3
by Bernd Nies 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, I'm trying to get SLED 10 RC3 to be installed with Autoyast. At the point where Autoyast configures the software selections I get this error message: Warning: Could not set patterns or selections: Basis-Devel, apparmor, ccb, desktop-base, desktop-gnome, desktop-kde, documentation, x11 The software section of the Autoyast XML file is: <software> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>desktop-base</pattern> <pattern>ccb</pattern> <pattern>documentation</pattern> <pattern>desktop-kde</pattern> <pattern>desktop-gnome</pattern> <pattern>apparmor</pattern> <pattern>apparmor</pattern> <pattern>Basis-Devel</pattern> <pattern>x11</pattern> </patterns> </software> Which is the new syntax of SLES 10 with patterns instead of selections and without <configure> and <install> sections anymore. Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? Bye Bernd

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Autoyast + SLED 10 RC3
by Bernd Nies 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi Tim, > I had this problem with Beta 7 but it's been since fixed. You may want to > check the md5sums of your DVD image as this also causes this error in RC2 > (due to a bad download). I have RC3 installing fine with a similar > patterns XML structure to you. Thanks. I checked the MD5 checksums of all five disks. They are okay. Installation without Autoyast directly from CD works fine. Regards, Bernd

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Problem with patterns in sles10
by Rainer Krienke 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hello, I tried to convert my SLES9 autoyast file to one that is usable for a SLES10 installation. There is a problem with the software selection. In my sles9 autoyast file I had: <software> <addons config:type="list"> <addon>Base-System</addon> <addon>Basis-Devel</addon> <addon>File-Server</addon> <addon>Linux-Tools</addon> <addon>YaST2</addon> <addon>analyze</addon> </addons> <base>Minimal</base> <packages config:type="list"> <package>rdist</package> <package>findutils-locate</package> </packages> </software> This worked. Now I tried the one shown below for sles10 which results in an error message I cannot interpret. Here a screen shot of the error: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/tmp/sles10.jpg (80Kb) Here the software section part of the sles10 autoyast file: <software> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>gnome-64bit</pattern> <pattern>apparmor</pattern> <pattern>base-64bit</pattern> <pattern>apparmor-64bit</pattern> <pattern>base</pattern> <pattern>64bit</pattern> <pattern>Basis-Devel</pattern> <pattern>Basis-Devel-64bit</pattern> </patterns> <packages config:type="list"> </packages> </software> I took this from an autoyast file generated during cloning of a SLES10 system, added the two Devel-section patterns and removed all package entries. But this seems to be wrong somehow. What is wrog with this config? Thanks Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke(a)uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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