Changes between 11.3 and 11.4

This is a brief overview of the changes in autoyast between openSUSE 11.3 and openSUSE 11.4 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
• [bug] an existing swap partition can accidently be reused even if AutoYaST is not supposed to touch it (bnc#613366)
• [func] speed up partitioning calculation if a lot partitions are reused (bnc#620212)
• [func] a new filesystem can be specified for partitioning_advanced
• [bug] you could not reuse more partitions than the hardware could create newly, even if no partition has to be created, partitioning failed (bnc#620212)
• [bug] fixed a race that could lead to an endless reboot loop when online-update is configured in the XML file and an updated kernel gets installed during stage2
• [func] you can switch on/off ipv6 now <networking><ipv6 config:type="boolean">false</ipv6>...</networking> (thanx to Michal Zugec for implementation bnc#633310)
• [bug] <partitioning_advanced> could block the installation with "some partitions in the system on /root are mounted by kernel-device name ...". That's a timeout popup now.
• [compat] disks on s390 are cloned with <device>/dev/disk/by-path/...</device> now (bnc#591603)
• [func] installation with nfs root (/) works now but still a bit experimental. Look here for an example. Thanks to Thomas Fehr.

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