Changes between 10.2 and 10.3

This is a brief overview of the changes in autoyast between SUSE Linux 10.2 and SUSE Linux 10.3 There are more fixes and features in other yast modules like the bootloader that affect the autoinstallation but are not listed here. This list only contains the changes of the autoyast itself.

• [doc] Documentation updates
• [bug] error popup, during saving, about invalid XML is fixed now (#227634)
• [bug] RNG schema fixes
• [bug] Software selection UI fixes (#231687, #232434)
• [func] The profile can be on a USB device now
  autoyast=floppy://... has that as a fallback
  autoyast=usb://... is possible too
• [compat] DTD files removed. Use the RNC/RNG files now.
• [func] ayast_setup client added to the autoyast2 RPM
• [bug] Code for imaging fixed
• [func] device guessing code enhanced so no <device> is needed at all on many machines even with multiple harddisks
• [bug] PPC cloning fixed (#192342)
• [bug] UI cursor isn't shown over the default module category in "yast autoyast" (#188267)
• [compat] partition cloning changed when linux is in between two windows partitions (#239708)
• [bug] 'close window' was not catched in some dialogs (#240631)
• [bug] packages that are required by yast modules and which are already installed, don't get installed again
• [func] popup added when package resolver run fails
• [bug] don't clone extended partitions of partition type 5 (#243063)
• [func] accept_non_trusted_gpg_key parameter added to signature handling (#242087)
• [bug] range operator for rules fixed to include the borders of the range (#244959)
• [bug] shrinking code fixed in case one partition is too big and a warning added if shrinking to 0 or less would be needed (#245072)
• [bug] use the partition_id configured in the profile when reusing partitions
• [bug] don't turn off the mount point widget in the UI if create=false
• [bug] the 'ask' feature could not store the answer in a list (#247826)
• [compat] signature-handling is less restrictive in a cloned profile (#248303)
• [compat] don't clone drives that contain no partitions with a mountpoint
• [bug] auto-added boot partition code fixed (#246023). On some architectures a second boot partition was added when / and /boot were on different drives
• [bug] "close small gap" code removed makes trouble on small harddisks
• [bug] shrinking partition code fixed (calculation of free space after shrinking was wrong)
• [bug] compatibility code to old profiles fixed
• [func] multiple questions per <ask>-dialog possible
• [func] SCSI boot: boot parameter 'withiscsi=1' does not have any effect with autoyast installation (#253432). Pops up a dialog now.
• [func] the <ask> feature can execute scripts now (documentation and an example)
• [func] each add-on can have it's own signature-handling section, including accept/reject rules for single keys (documentation).
• [bug] don't try to squeeze every byte out of a partition during cloning (#262535)
• [func] UI added for the <ask> directive
• [func] commandline interface for opening files added: yast2 autoyast file filename=/tmp/my.xml
• [bug] reuse of an LVM fixed (set create=false to the LVs you want to reuse)
• [bug] chrooted scripts execution fixed
• [bug] segfault in partitioning dialog of UI fixed (fstab options)
• [bug] <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> fixed (#287247)
• [func] <keep_install_network config:type="boolean"> in the <networking> section can be used to keep the network config that was used during installation. So no further network configuration in the autoyast profile is needed then.
  Of course that makes only sense if you installed via network.