Current best practise for me: 1) Have a local mirror of the later used - external - repositories In case the external side has removed the repo ( like for OS 10.3) you have a local one :-) 2) During autoyast installation only the images from the official release incl. Updates is used 3) A post install script adds the additional mirrored or external repos to the node Example: /usr/bin/zypper --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive ar -n \ 'OpenSuse 11.1 32bit local' http://localserver/export/suse/sl111/x86addon \ localaddons /usr/bin/zypper --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive ar -n \ 'OpenSuse 11.1 gwdg.de' http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.1/repo/oss \ gwdg.de /usr/bin/zypper --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive ar -n \ 'OpenSuse 11.1 packman' http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/11.1 \ packman /usr/bin/zypper --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive ar -n \ 'Science gwdg.de' http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/science/openSUSE_11.1 \ science /usr/bin/zypper --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive refresh 4) A update script add/removes/update required software for the node I think during installation it must be a init script Example: ... echo " java-1_6_0-sun java-1_6_0-sun-plugin db1 db1-devel libffi-devel libffi43 libffi43-devel scite filezilla libadns1 memprof python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-tk python-matplotlib-wx h5utils lyx " echo "$sw" | grep -v "^$" |\ while read i ; do /usr/bin/zypper --no-gpg-checks --non-interactive in --auto-agree-with-licenses $i done YMMV and there are other ways ( including the repos in the autoyast XML file ...) Hajo -----Original Message----- From: mmoeller@econet.ch [mailto:mmoeller@econet.ch] On Behalf Of Marcus Moeller Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:16 PM To: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] Installation Sources Hi all, I am quite new to autoyast, but trying to deploy openSUSE 11.2 Just wanted to know if it's possible to define a set of installation repositories, e.g. initial installation should be done via an official oS mirror, and additional packages should be installed from buildservice repos. Best Regards Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org