[sles-beta] beta10 autoYast SMT / CC Registration

[Josef Reidinger]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:30:16 +0000
"Ronny Pretzsch" <ronny.pretzsch at dfs.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have some questions about the early registration to SMT or Customer
> Center (CC) feature in SLES12.
> 
> When installing manually Yast offers the ability to register before
> actually installing. This is useful as updates can be installed
> immediately. Since Beta10 one can choose a local registration server
> (SMT) on the Yast gui. Thank you for this feature.
> 
> Can anybody post a functioning autoyast.xml extract which does
> exactly this registering in Autoyast? (Please no "that SHOULD work"
> stuff) Or send a (public) link to the current SLES *12* Autoyast
> Documentation?

Hi Ronny, as question regarding registration in autoyast environment
appear, I try to capture example snippet -
https://github.com/yast/yast-registration/blob/master/README.md

If something do not work or something is not clear, do not hesitate to
ask, I will try to improve such snippet or documentation of
registration part.

Josef

> 
> After registering the question pops up if updates shall be installed
> immediately. How is this question answered in autoyast.xml?
> Again please post a piece of working xml here.
> 
> I tried to manually install and early-register. The
> resulting /root/autoinst.xml does not contain anything related to
> registering. There seems to be some work left.
> 
> When installing manually the Yast Registration Page comes before the
> Yast Add-On Product Page. My question is if an Add-On Product (e.g.
> SDK) gets correctly registered at the SMT / CC as it is added after
> the registration. I myself found it more straight forward if Yast
> first does the add-on stuff and then the registering. Otherwise Yast
> would have to register again (in the background) after adding add-ons
> which makes the total installation process slower. I could not test
> this yet but I am going to with manual installation.
> 
> And once again: Autoyast must apply the network setting and the proxy
> setting *before* registering to SMT/CC. Or make it configurable in
> the xml file.
> 
> As this yast installation stuff cannot be fixed per maintenance
> update it must perfectly work when releasing SLES12. ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ronny Pretzsch
> 
> DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH