On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:08:41PM -0700, Michael T. Halligan wrote:

Before I waste a huge amount of time, has anybody actually ever successfully used the classes feature of Autoinstall? It feels sometimes like I'm the only person using autoinstall period, based on how little traffic there is on this list, and how many documentation problems i run into.

I've been using classes in our installs since sles9-sp3 and it carried right over into sled/sles10 just fine. Our config is assembled via a rules.xml, our autoyast calls: nfs://<host>/<path to sles10>/GV/profiles/ The main xml file has classes entries like: <classes config:type="list"> <class> <class_name>software</class_name> <configuration>sles10.xml</configuration> </class> </classes> from the GV/profiles/ path above: $ cat classes/software/sles10.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd"> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <software> <packages config:type="list"> <package>openafs</package> <package>openafs-client</package> <package>openafs-devel</package> </packages> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>base-32bit</pattern> </patterns> </software> </profile> I snipped most of the package and patterns bits, but you get the idea. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com [Bart & Lisa are reading a magazine at the Kwik-E-Mart.] Apu: "Hey, hey, this is not a lending library. If you're not going to buy that thing put it down or I'll blow your heads off!" -- Simpsons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org