post-patterns in AutoYaST

with openSUSE 11.1 and SLES 11 you can install patterns in stage 2 and not only in stage 1. For packages that was already possible since quite a while via
<post-packages config:type="list">
and now this configuration option got a sibling called ... surprise surprise ...
<post-patterns config:type="list">
here is the documentation.

YaUIc in AutoYaST 11.1/SLES11

"Yet another UI change" in the AutoYaST UI. After using the last UI change for a few hours, we came to the conclusion that there is some room for improvement and so we did a redesign again and now it looks a bit like the Mac OS Finder tableview which is another step forward for the usability of the AutoYaST UI.
I'm quite confident that we'll keep it that way this time ;-)

some AutoYaST UI changes

in openSUSE 11.1 and SLES11, there are some changes in the AutoYaST UI. First of all, the tree on the left was dropped to be more YaST control center like and all summaries of one section are collected on one page now. That means you save at least one click when jumping between modules ;)
The usage of the UI has changed a bit by this, like some buttons were replaced by Combobox Widgets.
Thanx to Martin Schmidkunz for the suggestion on how the UI should look like from a usability point of view and thanx to Sven Schober (a student in my team) for implementing it.



Another important change has happened in the validation dialog which shows the name of the section in the AutoYaST profile that has failed the validation now.
With jing installed you were always able to see which part of the profile is broken but now even with only xmllint installed you can at least see wich section failed.
Thanx to Sven Schober again for implementing this.

EVMS support dropped in SLES11

I'm back from my vacation in france and while checking my TODOs, I read that EVMS support was dropped for SLES11. That means today I dropped EVMS support from AutoYaST as well. AutoYaST will no longer be able to deal with EVMS during cloning or installing in SLES11. For SLES10 and the service packs of SLES10 it's still supported.
If you want to read more about EVMS in SLES11, look here.