Changes between SLES11 SP1 and SLES11 SP2

This is a brief overview of the changes in autoyast between SLES11 SP1 and SLES11 SP2 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
• [compat] disks on s390 are cloned with <device>/dev/disk/by-path/...</device> now (bnc#591603)
• [bug] "start_immediately" in networking does not work (bnc#655571)
• [bug] using NFS configuration in the XML file will overwrite NFS4 settings in the sysconfig file (bnc#684859)
• [bug] s390 only - Network interface eth0 is not UP when Layer2 is enabled (bnc#573607)
• [bug] try to mount DVD/CD again if first try fails. There were rare cases where autoyast could not mount the DVD with the autoyast XML file on the first try (bnc#684974)
• [func] you can set the partition table type now to "msdos" or "gpt" (bnc#631176)
• [func] new parity_algorithms added for RAID6+RAID10: parity_first, parity_last, left_asymmetric_6, left_symmetric_6, right_asymmetric_6, right_symmetric_6, parity_first_6, n2, o2, f2, n3, o3, f3
• [func] <keep_unknown_lv config:type="boolean"></keep_unknown_lv> for LVM groups added. If you reuse a LVG and you set this to true, all existing LVs in it will be kept unless you tell different in the XML file. You don't have to specify a LV to keep it then.
• [func] you can trigger a restart of yast with a pre-script now. Your script has to touch the file /var/lib/YaST2/restart_yast. If that file exists after your pre-script execution. AutoYaST will restart yast.
• [bug] clone 'label' of a partition if it was set (bnc#628738)
• [func] backported all <ask>-features of openSUSE 11.4. Read more on my blog
• [func] partition_alignment added to general section (bnc#597723). On SLES11 SP2, parted is not creating partitions on cylinder boundaries anymore. That can lead to boot problems on some hardware. See documentation of the general section
• [func] installation with nfs root (/) works now. Look here for an example. Thanks to Thomas Fehr.
• [bug] relurl://... did not work for add-on's in the autoyast XML file. It worked only for add_on_products.xml on the installation source. Fixed now. (bnc#702863)
• [func] AutoYaST can do unattended upgrades now. Read my blog post for more information. Thanks to Jiri Srain.
• [func] you can run the <networking> configuration now in stage1. So if you have 2 NICs and you need both for installation, you can configure that in stage1 now. You need to set the boolean <networking><setup_before_proposal config:type="boolean">true</setup_before_proposal> to activate stage1 network configuration.
• [bug] passing a type=boolean to an ask-script via $VAL did not work
• [func] scripts (except for init-scripts) can have a <notification> text now that is shown in a popup while the script is running
• [bug] speed up partitioning calculation if a lot partitions are reused (bnc#620212)
• [func] autoyast can configure fibre channel now in the first stage via <fcoe-client> (thanks to Gabriele Mohr)
• [bug] potential endless loop (race) fixed when doing online-updates during autoinstallation
• [func] <add-on> section is being cloned now correctly (bnc#674468)
• [func] support for client certificates added when HTTPS is used. Put the cert/key to "/etc/ssl/clientcerts/client-cert.pem" and "/etc/ssl/clientcerts/client-key.pem". The keyfile is optional if the key is in the client-cert file already (bnc#709255)
• [bug] relurl did not work for 2nd stage scripts (post and init-scripts) (bnc#666189)
• [bug] reuse partitions with <mountby config:type="symbol"> set is fixed now (bnc#715435)
• [bug] yast did not probe the bios information correctly, so some AutoYaST Rules like "product" and "board" did not work (bnc#716081)
• [bug] s390 only - sleep 5 seconds after zfcp/dasd intialization, to let the disks settle (bnc#593773)
• [compat] the gid of a group is cloned now too (bnc#540787)
• [bug] in stage2, the sles-release package was installed always, no matter if it already was installed on the system. That's not happening anymore (bnc#721166)
• [bug] Autoyast control files without the <gid> specified in the <groups><group> section recrypted the <group_password> (bnc#722421)
• [func] resolving /dev/disk/... <device> names in the XML file are resolved by libstorage now and not by AutoYaST. That makes /dev/md/ device names possible too in the XML (bnc#726319)
• [compat] ask-scripts execution string is only logged in the y2log file if debug was set to true or y2debug was set (bnc#732359)
• [bug] the password field in ask-dialogs have a min width of 40 now. Sometimes they were way too short (bnc#737660)
• [func] device guessing code enhanced in case you don't want to hard code the <device> for <partitioning> in the XML file. See my blog for more information.
• [bug] fixed the merging of install-network and XML configuration if <keep_install_network ..:> is set to true (bnc#712864)

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