System Configurator 2.0.0 has been released. It contains a number of new features (listed below) and lots of bug fixes (many listed below). All users should upgrade as soon as convenient. The interface to System Configurator from System Imager remains exactly the same, so the upgrade should be completely transparent.
Attached is the full release announcement:
System Configurator 2.0.0
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We are proud to announce the release of System Configurator 2.0.0.
This is a major enhancement from the last stable release of 1.20. The
following new features have been added since the 1.x release stream.
* Time Zone Configuration
SC now takes a [TIME] stanza, which can be used to set time
zone information on the client during installation. This means
a single image can be used in multiple time zones and be
configured correctly. (man systemconfig.conf for more info)
* User Exits
A new [USEREXIT\d] stanza was added. This allows
administrators to specify an arbitrary number of user exits to
be run after SC finishes configuration. (man systemconfig.conf
for syntax)
* Native Tools for Ramdisk Generation
SC now uses native tools (mkinitrd or mk_initrd) for ramdisk
configuration, instead of its own home brew solution. This
means that ramdisks should look and work just as if they were
created by the native distribution. Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, and
Mandrake are known to work with the new method.
* iSeries support
Support has been added for the IBM iSeries (64bit PPC)
Platform. iSeries images can now be installed if using a CVS
release of SystemImager and SystemInstaller. Official support
from the rest of SIS will be coming shortly.
* Grub support
I'm now convinced we have grub working correctly in nearly all
cases. Bootdev other than (hd0) is now supported, as are
labels on disk devices. This code has been tested with Red Hat
7.2 and 7.3.
* Better option parsing
The configuration parsing routines are now far cleaner and
order is now more deterministic. The following order of
precedence exists:
- Command line options (other than configsi and configall)
override all other sources.
- User specified config file (with --cfgfile option)
- Standard in (with --stdin option)
- Global config file (/etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf)
- Command line options configsi and configall
Hence --configsi on the command line will turn on --confighw,
--confignet, and --runboot. Adding "confighw = no" to
/etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf with turn of the --confighw
option.
* Gatewaydev added
The GATEWAYDEV option was added to the [NETWORK] block. This
allows the user to override the default, which is the device
name of the first interface. This is only supported for Red
Hat style network configuration.
* Hardware table update
The PCI ID to kernel module table has been updated to include
more recent ids. Hopefully this helps everyone.
* Keyboard hack
It was found that SuSE SLES7 defaults the keyboard
configuration to german, by setting a field in rc.config. SC
now blanks that value (which defaults the keyboard to en-US.)
This behavior can be turned off by adding "configkeyboard = no"
to the systemconfig.conf file.
* EFI enhancements
The EFI module was made more generic, so it won't assume the
EFI partition is the first partition of the first disk, and
allows for boot files that are not in the toplevel directory.
-Sean
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Sean Dague [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dague.net
There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than
zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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