Bug 159678

Summary: dirinstall able to use xml files from autoyast
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Hans Witvliet <hwit>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: lslezak, mvidner
Version: Final   
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Hardware: 64bit   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Description Hans Witvliet 2006-03-21 09:22:11 UTC 
If one needs to install/configure a number of identical systems it is very nice to use the autoinstall/autoyast-tool.

To my surprise the same mechanism is not available when doing a dirinstall (for xen) For instance, software selection is currently fixed to X+kde.
It would be nice when doing a dirinstall, 
a) one was prompted for (on/off-box) for using an existing xml-file
b) a dialogue box for entering the appropiate file name

Probably minor impact for current dirinstall ycp code, but it lays an extra burden on the stability/features of autoinstallation-tool. ;-))

Hans
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-03-21 14:24:37 UTC 
Asking the YaST maintainers for a comment.
Comment 2 Lynn Bendixsen 2006-03-21 15:45:33 UTC 
Chuck, Is this something we can add to the YaST module this week?
Comment 3 Ladislav Slezák 2006-03-22 07:30:53 UTC 
The old package manager could save package selection into a file and later reload the selection back. You don't need complete autoyast support for that task.

AFAIK the new package manager doesn't support save/load of a selection yet, Stefan?
Comment 4 Martin Vidner 2006-03-22 09:14:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156593 ***