On Friday 22 April 2005 00:39, suse_list wrote:

I was wondering a few things about the YAST autoinstall config files. I have setup the rules file correctly and all seems to work. Now what i would like to do is to split up the config files so that the <software> section is in a separate file and can be included in different config files. Basically i want custom configurations only for partitioning trees, and the rest to be modular.

If I understand you right, you can use classes for this. Just configure the selections you want to configure and store the xml file in the classes directory. Then, you can merge a control file with all the classes you want and you'll get a new control file, that contains the parts of the classes too. So, if you change a class, you have to merge the control files again but you don't have to configure the software selection in each autoyast profile file again. Another way might be to create an own package selection for you and then choose this selection in all of your autoyast profiles. he new selection must be under suse/setup/descr/ on the installation source. Of course, this is just a solution for the "one for all" package selection but will not help with a "one for all" printer configuration. A third option that comes in my mind is, that you use an xinclude statement in your profile, so the software selection part gets fetched via http for example: <xinclude:include href="http://192.168.1.1/profiles/includes/mySoftSel.xml" />

Another question is, how would i set it up in the config files that when it installs it also runs online updates as well and configures it to do auto-online updates from a specified server?

the online update is not autoyast capable at the moment. What you can do, is to provide updated packages on the installation source and AFAIK Anas has posted a script for that in the past. Look at the archive for that. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nürnberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de