Changes between 11.2 and 11.3

This is a brief overview of the changes in autoyast between openSUSE 11.2 and openSUSE 11.3 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
• [func] if you use autoyast=slp you can add a "description=" attribute for each URL in the slp.reg config file
• [func] <location> can be CDATA now (bnc#546387) to avoid trouble when <location> is a CGI script on an http server
• [bug] check if cdrom is mounted when using an image to install and the image is on CD/DVD. thanx to Leonardo L. P. da Mata for a patch. The imaging feature is still experimental
• [func] autoyast=nfs:// falls back to nfs4 if nfs3 mounting fails
• [func] added command line interface to the clone_system client (try "yast2 clone_system help")
• [func] rules can have dialogs now, to select the XML snippets manually (read my blog for a description)
• [bug] set mode to config during cloning (bnc#520658)
• [bug] reusing of logical partitions can fail (bnc#557994). This bug was invented with 11.2 and can be workarounded by setting the partition_id
• [bug] mountby was not cloned correctly (bnc#557759)
• [bug] autoyast=usb failed if the USB device was already mounted (bnc#565557)
• [func] autoyast=label://THE_LABEL/THE_PATH/THE_FILE.xml implemented to look for the profile on devices with a label
• [bug] passing a boolean answer value via $VAL to an ask-script failed (bnc#572166)
• [bug] the regex match for rules only worked for substring, not with real regexpressions (bnc#572932)
• [func] you can choose a different inst-source in the UI than the one of the running system
• [bug] the resize of a partition was not creating free space (bnc#580842)
• [bug] don't install post-packages with ayast_setup twice (bnc#584564)
• [bug] post-patterns did not work with ayast_setup (bnc#584564)
• [func] "location" option added to the scripts UI
• [func] "location" option added to the config-files UI
• [compat] prefer the filename of a remote script over the type of the script as filename, when not specified in the XML
• [compat] no longer use swap partitions from unconfigured disks
• [func] scripts (except for init-scripts) can have a <notification> text now that is shown in a popup while the script is running
• [bug] fixed a race when final_halt or final_reboot was used (bnc#591300)
• [compat] the printer section has changed completely. Read the docu for more (thanx to jsmeix for writing the docu)
• [bug] reuse of a physical device for an LVM fixed (bnc#591601)
• [compat] partition_alignment added to general section (bnc#597723). On openSUSE 11.3, parted is not creating partitions on cylinder boundaries anymore. That can lead to boot problems on some hardware. See documentation of the general section
• [compat] if you don't have a signature-handling section anymore, you might get popup dialogs now for accepting keys/wrong signatures and so on. This can block your installation. If you have all signature-handling options set, then no popups will rise.
• [func] grouping of ask-elements on a dialog via frame is possible now (fate#308526)
• [bug] using "max" and "auto" could lead to a 0 byte partition. That bug was invented with openSUSE 11.2 and exists only there (bnc#607460)

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