Re: State of Autoyast for OpenSUSE 13.2

Stefan Schubert <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:28:02 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.autoinstall
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On
https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/book_autoyast/data/book_autoyast.html 

is the latest documentation.

Greetings
Stefan

Am 21.10.2014 um 09:55 schrieb Joschi Brauchle:
> Hello Stefan,
>
> I am currently trying to figure out what is going wrong with the 13.1 
> xml profile in 13.2. The installation is completely broken without any 
> (gui) errors during the process.
>
> But if I create a new profile for 13.2 from scratch, auto installation 
> works fine. Thus, I'd like to revise my statement about Autoyast being 
> broken, it is clearly not!
>
>
> One question: Is there an up-to-date website that lists the changes 
> from AY 13.1 to 13.2?
>
> Google results:
> 1) http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/autoyast/ is about SLES11SP3 
> (which is strange as it is hosted by opensuse.org).
> 2) 
> https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/singlehtml/book_autoyast/book_autoyast.html 
> the same
> 3) http://users.suse.com/~ug/ is outdated as of 12.2.
>
> There seem to be a lot of changes to the installer (plus new modules 
> like yast2-auth-client to configure sssd) but no documentation to be 
> found (easily) for users...
>
> Thanks,
> Joschi Brauchle
>
>
> On 10/21/2014 09:26 AM, Stefan Schubert wrote:
>> Hi Joschi,
>> please open a bug report and attach the logfiles and autoinst.xml
>> Thanks !
>>
>> Greetings
>> Stefan
>> Am 20.10.2014 um 23:58 schrieb Thomas Fehr:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 20, Joschi Brauchle wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/20/2014 02:21 PM, 686f6c6d wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joschi Brauchle
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Version 13.2 will be released in a couple of days and it looks like
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> autoinstalled is broken once again on the (to be) released medium.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hence, auto-installing will not work correctly for the complete
>>>>>> lifetime of
>>>>>> 13.2. This was the case for 12.x and 13.1 already,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is pretty frustrating... :-(
>>>>> Meh. Damn. Does any bnc# exist for this?
>>>> No,
>>>> I am currently trying to sort out the problems and analyze.
>>>>
>>>> So far it looks like a 13.1 XML used for 13.2 results in a broken
>>>> installation (i.e. all second stage steps are missing).
>>>> I'll provide more information as soon as I know whats going wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Possibly, Thomas Fehr could comment on how the second stage works in
>>>> 13.2
>>>> and what steps are needed to get it working, as it looks like it was
>>>> dropped from the regular installer?
>>> I am currently on a sabattical for a year that started 1.4.2014 .
>>> Therefore my knowledge about developments that happened in the last
>>> some months is quite limited.
>>>
>>> Autoyast maintainer is Stefan Schubert <[email protected]>.
>>> I forwarded this thread to him.
>>>
>>> Tschuess,
>>>     Thomas Fehr
>>
>>
>


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