Comment # 24 on bug 1013206 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #23)
> (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #22)
> > > 
> > > I guess using this as /usr/sbin/extend:
> > > 
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > rpm -q ${1%%.rpm} >/dev/null >&1 || zypper --non-interactive in ${1%%.rpm}
> > > 
> > > would work as a workaround. Maybe it's even a proper fix, I'm not sure how
> > > this behaves in certain situations. I'll try to give this a try in
> > > live-net-installer.
> > 
> > I tried it - it works if the package is already installed. Otherwise zypper
> > aborts because YaST currently holds the lock. Any idea?
> 
> To be honest, I was expecting the fake extend to simply return 0 if the
> package is already there and another exit code otherwise (basically the
> first half of your script). That should be enough as a workaround for the
> live installer case. I don't think is worth it (or even realistic) to
> actually install the package if it's missing.

If you think that it's not that important to implement that, I can submit the
first part for now.

Packages can be installed as usual on live media (with or without persistence),
so there's no technical reason not to enable this.