Re: [suse-autoinstall] auto-installing with patched OS

Hi, I just found out that the permission of the content file under updates/ is wrong, it should be world readable. (chmod a+r content) I will update the script. Anas Suffin, Charles wrote:

Hi folks,

I used Anas' create_update_source.sh on my SLES9 installation source. It created an updates/ directory in that source, resulting in a directory structure that looks like this:

SLES9/ SUSE-CORE-Version-9/ SUSE-SLES-Version-9/ boot content control.xml media.1 updates/ <-- this was newly-created by the script, as expected yast/

After this, I followed the instructions in the script:

1. I moved my packages into SLES9/updates/suse/<arch> directories. 2. I cd into SLES9/updates/suse. 3. I ran /usr/bin/create_package_descr -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV

OK, so then I do an autoinstall from this source on a targe machine.

After the reboot, there is no sign of my package on the installed machine, and if I search for the package using YaST2 "Install and Remove Software" it is not found by its name.

I think I'm missing a step somewhere to cause the installation to actually install my package. What am I missing? Do I need to add a <package> line to the XML file? Do I need to do some more mucking with the installation source?

-- Charlie

-----Original Message----- From: Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:53 PM To: Mark Acosta Cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] auto-installing with patched OS

Hi, I have a script for doing this you might want to try, see

http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoyast2/scripts/create_update_source.sh

The script itself has some additional info on how to use it.

The script uses the multiple source feature known from SLES, it will register multiple sources and the latest version of packages available in the original source and the new source will be installed.

Give it a try and let me know if it works for you. any feedback is welcome.

Anas

Mark Acosta wrote:

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I need to autoinstall a patched 2.6.8-24.11-default kernel (including patched utils) for Suse 9.2. The stock kernel is 2.6.8-24.10-default, but I can't find out how to patch/update to 2.6.8-24.11-default. How is the best accomplished?

thanks, Mark