Changes between SLES11 and SLES11 SP1

This is a brief overview of the changes in autoyast between SLES11 and SLES11 SP1 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] autoyast fails to add add-on product with iso image (bnc#484735)
• [bug] software RAID cloning fixed (bnc#480690)
• [bug] fixed the translation of module/groups in the UI (bnc#448238)
• [compat] default filesystem changed from reiser to ext3 (bnc#490389)
• [compat] don't log <ask> via milestone anymore (bnc#492746)
• [bug] don't log passwords from "ask" fixed (bnc#492746)
• [bug] send ACK package for the last DATA package that was received via TFTP (bnc#507086)
• [bug] fix for autoyast profile on by-id devices like in autoyast=device://disk/by-id/... (bnc#513127)
• [bug] schema file and cloning code for striped LVM fixed
• [bug] autoyast=usb://... could fail to find profile on logical partitions (bnc#513536)
• [bug] <pxe> schema file added (bnc#516813)
• [compat] clone the mountoptions of partitions too (bnc#542330)
• [bug] accidently selected too many patterns to install when using software selection in autoyast UI (bnc#529613)
• [bug] post-scripts with network_needed=true can throw a resolver error (bnc#553284)
• [func] <location> can be CDATA now (bnc#546387) to avoid trouble when location is a CGI script on an http server
• [bug] set mode to config during cloning (bnc#520658)
• [func] autoyast=nfs:// falls back to nfs4 if nfs3 mounting fails
• [bug] mountby was not cloned correctly (bnc#557759)
• [bug] autoyast=usb failed if the USB device was already mounted (bnc#565558)
• [bug] passing a boolean answer value via $VAL to an ask-script failed (bnc#572166)
• [bug] the regex match for rules only worked for substring, not with real regexpressions (bnc#572932)
• [bug] the resize of a partition was not creating free space (bnc#580842)
• [bug] post-packages that are installed with ayast_setup are installed even if the package is already installed on the system (bnc#584564)
• [bug] post-patterns are ignored completely by ayast_setup (bnc#584564)
• [bug] fixed a race when final_halt or final_reboot was used (bnc#591300)
• [compat] the checksum for add_on_products and add_on_products.xml is optional now (see my blog)
• [bug] reuse of a physical device for an LVM fixed (bnc#591601)

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