Present: jkupec, jreidinger, jsrain, juhliarik, kmachalkova, locilka, lslezak, mzugec Absent: jsuchome (ill), mvidner (brainshare)

TOC: 1. General issues 2. Libzypp & pkg management 3. Bootloader features 4. 2nd stage of installation 5. Miscellaneous bugfixes

General issues --------------------- * Meeting minutes (save Novell/SUSE internal issues) should, besides results@, go to public yast-devel@ as well

* openSUSE project will participate in Google Summer of Code. If you have any idea for GSoC project or if you're willing to be a mentor of some, please add it (and yourself) to ideas page: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2008

Libzypp & pkg management --------------------------------------- * Media backend: ejecting CD/DVD from specific drive: UI support in y2-packager is now ready, zypper is WIP (FaTE #120298)

* 'zypper source-install' and 'zypper build-deps-install' are now united into single command. User can opt for installing either the source RPM or build dependency RPMs via commandline options

* jkupec intends to work on experimental libzypp CIM provider in his ITO, implementing at least basic functions such as show installed pkgs, or install pkg

* Miscellaneous zypp bugfixing (jreidinger is a quick learner :) ) - more verbose output when modifying repository - better exception throwing if external program called from libzypp fails - improved repository type (susetags vs. yum) probing

* ncurses package selector refactoring is almost finished

* Repository manager can now be run directly from package manager (it is a new menu option) - implemented in Qt and Gtk UI frontend, ncurses will follow soon. See also: http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2008-03/msg00048.html

Bootloader features --------------------------- * Update of boot section when installing/updating kernel: yast writes only "dummy" boot sections, kernel post-install script is available to populate these dummy sections during installation (FaTE #302660)

2nd stage of installation --------------------------------- * The purpose is to get rid of 2nd stage of installation (after reboot) entirely, or make it as non-interactive as possible - moving interactive steps to the 1st stage and configure the rest automatically using proposed defaults

* Kicking it out entirely is not possible, as it is needed by autoyast

* Some automatic configuration can be done by running y2base in chroot env. at the end of 1st stage, but there are still some issues (network, or CUPS restart hangs,...)

* See also: http://kobliha-suse.blogspot.com/2008/03/getting-rid-of-2nd-stage-installati... and discussion: http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2008-03/msg00021.html

Miscellaneous bugfixing --------------------------------- * Fixed yast2-restore's part of autoyast * Installation of add-ons and related registration of new products in SLED ThinClient * product-creator - improved determining of bootable/base product (bnc#368580) * L3 escalation: udev rules file is not generated in 1st stage of instalaltion in SLE10 products -> network devices switch their order after reboot * enable adding unconfigured network ifaces to the bridge