Feature changed by: Marcus Kraft (marcuskraft) Feature #320873, revision 5 Title: Remove copy_to_system from control.xml and AutoYaST openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ancor Gonzalez Sosa (ancorgs) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In 2006 an generic mechanism to (silently) copy files from an existing filesystem to the system being installed was introduced in YaST as part of the implementation of two different features (fate#120103 and fate#300421). Any information to the user about the files being copied was intentionally left out (see comments in #300421). In 2008 the list of files was moved to control.xml and the AutoYaST profile (fate#305019). But the documentation and schema for the AutoYaST profile were never updated to reflect the change. We have received several bug reports and Fate entries about it since then, from incomplete lists of files (bug#956515, bug#956976) to non- intuitive or incomplete behavior (fate#319624, bug#956976) and everything in between. Starting with yast2-installation 3.1.187 and yast2-users 3.1.49, the original features do not longer need to use "copy_to_system" and the corresponding section is now empty in the control files of both SLE and openSUSE. I would like to completely drop the "copy_to_system" feature since it's obscure (everything happen behind user's back), problematic (quite some bug reports), not necessary (not longer needed by the originating features) and poorly documented (not even in the AutoYaST schema). References: Historic background https://features.opensuse.org/120103 (https://features.opensuse.org/120103) https://features.opensuse.org/300421 (https://features.opensuse.org/300421) https://features.opensuse.org/305019 (https://features.opensuse.org/305019) Related bugs/fate requests https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956515 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956515) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956976 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956976) https://features.opensuse.org/319624 (https://features.opensuse.org/319624) Documentation Impact: The AutoYaST feature is not documented, but we should remove/update this piece of information: Importing files from previous installation (https://github.com/yast/yast-installation/blob/57f377dec11106a3d3d8ff018a466...) Use Case: As a regular user installing a fresh Linux distribution (this is not related to updates), I don't expect random files from my previous Linux installations to be copied to the new system without even giving me the opportunity to choose from with installation (or whether I want that copy at all). + Discussion: + #1: Marcus Kraft (marcuskraft) (2016-11-30 15:10:34) + @Fredric: looks like a cleanup effort, to make autoyast more robust. + However, if efforts vs stability is of concern, we might defer this to + SLE 13 / SLES 12 SP4. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320873