Autoyast Init Script does not correctly translate relurl

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1
AutoYaST

Situation

In SLES11 it is possible to place your custom user scripts in the same location as the autoyast files and refer to them with the syntax relurl:///<script_name>.

This feature currently does not work with Init-type autoyast scripts (scripts executed during the initial boot process after YaST2 has finished). For example, given an autoyast launched from

http://10.0.0.4/install/autoyast/sles11/trunk

relurl:///init-script-foo.sh should be expanded to

http://10.0.0.4/install/autoyast/sles11/trunk/init-script-foo.sh

However, the installation fails when autoyast cannot find the specified script. A look at the y2log shows that the host has been replaced, but not the directory:

2011-01-05 10:13:15 <1> linux(9280) [YCP] AutoinstScripts.ycp:201 changed relurl to http://10.0.0.4//init-script-foo.sh

As this location does not exist, the file cannot be downloaded:

2011-01-05 10:13:32 <3> testhost(9280) [YCP] autoinstall/io.ycp:84 Can't find URL: http://10.0.0.4//init-script-foo.sh

Resolution

This issue has been reported to engineering.

Additional Information

This issue can be worked around using a chroot-script incorporating the following snippet:

if grep "11 SP1" /mnt/etc/issue; then

  sed -i.orig -e "s/AutoinstConfig::directory/dirname(AutoinstConfig::filepath)/"
/mnt/usr/share/YaST2/modules/AutoinstScripts.ycp

  chroot /mnt ycpc -c /usr/share/YaST2/modules/AutoinstScripts.ycp

fi

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