Ok, let's continue the monologue, as my knowledge progresses (aka "on error: learn")... ;-} On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:31:38AM +0100, T. Ribbrock wrote: [...]
THAT'S IT! If you now add packages from this repository to your package list in autoinst.xml, they will get installed. In fact, the additional repository will show up with a full name and as a CD in the install screen when autoyast is installing the system. And YES, you CAN add more than one extra repository that way (I'm using two at the moment).
There seems to be a second catch: If the repositories are added as described, YaST's "online_update" demands to have update directories for those repositories as well... That means that any update from one of the usual FTP mirrors will *fail*, as they do not have those directories. If there is a way to tell YaST to ignore this, I haven't seen it. However, if you mirror the updates locally, you can add some directories to keep YaST happy. For Packman, I had to add i586/update/Packman/10.0/patches at the same level where the standard "i386" directory resides. YaST would then let me use the online update again. So, all I need now is an easy way to generate the patches from the Packman updates... errr... :-} Cheerio, Thomas