[opensuse-autoinstall] How to remove entry from XML file with merging?
Hello everyone, I have the following problem: We have an autoyast base-profile.xml for all our Linux machines, which includes --------- <software> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <package>NetworkManager</package> </remove-packages> </software> --------- because all those machines use the traditional ifup method. Now, I want to integrate a mobile workstation, which should use NetworkManager to manage LAN/WLAN/VPN connections. Thus, I would somehow have to remove the above entry by merging with another XML. Otherwise I cannot install NetworkManager as a regular <package>. I guess that is not possible? I can only add/change entries by merging with another XMl, but not remove thing... correct? (Of course I could remove that line from the base-profile.xml, but so far I'm looking for a better solution) Is it possible to work on the final installation XML file (after merging is done) with a pre-script? How would I get the path to that file? So far, it looks like it is burried somewhere in /tmp/Yast-XXXXXX-YYYYY/ during installation... Thanks for your help! Regards, Joschi Brauchle
Let me just add my current (non-working) solution: I merge an XML to base-profile.xml which contains the NetworkManager as a <post-package> and ----- <networking> <!-- Use NETWORK MANAGER instead of ifup --> <managed config:type="boolean">true</managed> </networking> ----- Then, I am removing the lock on the NetworkManager package from "/etc/zypp/locks" with sed using a chroot-script. Unfortunately, I get a message box "Error: Network not running" during stage 2 during "Configuring network...". The problem seems to be that ifup is being exchanged for NetworkManager at that stage, but NM does not start because "dbus" is not running at this point in time. Actually I don't know why this is the case. So maybe this would work if I would remove the lock before the package installation in stage 1 and install NW as a regular <package> instead of <post-package> ? BTW, this is all OpenSuSE 11.4 On 11/30/2011 10:15 AM, Joschi Brauchle wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have the following problem: We have an autoyast base-profile.xml for all our Linux machines, which includes --------- <software> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <package>NetworkManager</package> </remove-packages> </software> --------- because all those machines use the traditional ifup method.
Now, I want to integrate a mobile workstation, which should use NetworkManager to manage LAN/WLAN/VPN connections. Thus, I would somehow have to remove the above entry by merging with another XML. Otherwise I cannot install NetworkManager as a regular <package>.
I guess that is not possible? I can only add/change entries by merging with another XMl, but not remove thing... correct?
(Of course I could remove that line from the base-profile.xml, but so far I'm looking for a better solution)
Is it possible to work on the final installation XML file (after merging is done) with a pre-script? How would I get the path to that file? So far, it looks like it is burried somewhere in /tmp/Yast-XXXXXX-YYYYY/ during installation...
Thanks for your help! Regards, Joschi Brauchle
-- Dipl.-Ing. Joschi Brauchle, M.Sc. Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) 80290 Munich, Germany Tel (work): +49 89 289-23474 Fax (work): +49 89 289-23490 E-mail: joschi.brauchle@tum.de Web: http://www.lnt.ei.tum.de/
1) Build the XML beforehand. Use different xml files like base.xml , network.xml and so which will be merged together to build the final xml. Drawback: You need some additional xslt scripts to merge correctly. Could be supplied on request. 2) Change the final XML with a pre-script ( Final XML must be named /tmp/profile/modified.xml , this file will be reread by autoyast after the pre-scripts has run. ) Example: ( Setting the IP of the Installation server in the final XML file. ) <scripts> <pre-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <filename>cfg_pre</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source> /tmp/profile/modified.xml .... Hth Hajo -----Original Message----- From: Joschi Brauchle [mailto:joschi.brauchle@tum.de] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:16 AM To: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] How to remove entry from XML file with merging? Hello everyone, I have the following problem: We have an autoyast base-profile.xml for all our Linux machines, which includes --------- <software> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <package>NetworkManager</package> </remove-packages> </software> --------- because all those machines use the traditional ifup method. Now, I want to integrate a mobile workstation, which should use NetworkManager to manage LAN/WLAN/VPN connections. Thus, I would somehow have to remove the above entry by merging with another XML. Otherwise I cannot install NetworkManager as a regular <package>. I guess that is not possible? I can only add/change entries by merging with another XMl, but not remove thing... correct? (Of course I could remove that line from the base-profile.xml, but so far I'm looking for a better solution) Is it possible to work on the final installation XML file (after merging is done) with a pre-script? How would I get the path to that file? So far, it looks like it is burried somewhere in /tmp/Yast-XXXXXX-YYYYY/ during installation... Thanks for your help! Regards, Joschi Brauchle -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
So, I now actually separated the networking part from the base-profile
and managed to install NetworkManager as a regular package.
My autoinst.xml on the installing system contains:
--------
<networking>
<dns>
1) Build the XML beforehand. Use different xml files like base.xml , network.xml and so which will be merged together to build the final xml.
Drawback: You need some additional xslt scripts to merge correctly. Could be supplied on request.
2) Change the final XML with a pre-script ( Final XML must be named /tmp/profile/modified.xml , this file will be reread by autoyast after the pre-scripts has run. )
Example: ( Setting the IP of the Installation server in the final XML file. )
<scripts> <pre-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <filename>cfg_pre</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source>
v_dummy=$(echo -e \\0100) # Give us the @ echo -e "INFO:\tReplacing ${v_dummy}INSTSERVER${v_dummy} in /tmp/profile/modified.xml ." v_instServer=$( cat /etc/install.inf | awk ' ( $1 ~ "^Server:" ) { print $2} ' ) v_dummy=${v_dummy}INSTSERVER${v_dummy} sed "s/${v_dummy}/${v_instServer}/g" /tmp/profile/autoinst.xml> /tmp/profile/modified.xml
....
Hth Hajo
-----Original Message----- From: Joschi Brauchle [mailto:joschi.brauchle@tum.de] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:16 AM To: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] How to remove entry from XML file with merging?
Hello everyone,
I have the following problem: We have an autoyast base-profile.xml for all our Linux machines, which includes --------- <software> <remove-packages config:type="list"> <package>NetworkManager</package> </remove-packages> </software> --------- because all those machines use the traditional ifup method.
Now, I want to integrate a mobile workstation, which should use NetworkManager to manage LAN/WLAN/VPN connections. Thus, I would somehow have to remove the above entry by merging with another XML. Otherwise I cannot install NetworkManager as a regular<package>.
I guess that is not possible? I can only add/change entries by merging with another XMl, but not remove thing... correct?
(Of course I could remove that line from the base-profile.xml, but so far I'm looking for a better solution)
Is it possible to work on the final installation XML file (after merging is done) with a pre-script? How would I get the path to that file? So far, it looks like it is burried somewhere in /tmp/Yast-XXXXXX-YYYYY/ during installation...
Thanks for your help! Regards, Joschi Brauchle
-- Dipl.-Ing. Joschi Brauchle, M.Sc. Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) 80290 Munich, Germany Tel (work): +49 89 289-23474 Fax (work): +49 89 289-23490 E-mail: joschi.brauchle@tum.de Web: http://www.lnt.ei.tum.de/
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