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Invoking External Commands in YaST

Best Practice: Yast::Execute

This is the method to use since about 2018. Don't use SCR .target.bash in new code.

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Limitations of the ItemSelector Widget

Original PRs

Those PRs contain much more detailed information and also screenshots:

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PaaP (Partitioner as a Product)

Author: Stefan Hundhammer shundhammer@suse.com

Motivation

The YaST installer is a very powerful, but also very complex tool; it is designed to cover a large variety of Linux installation scenarios. The user is asked a lot of questions in a lot of workflow steps; but in many of these, you can simply click "Next" and rely on the defaults.

In regular intervals, somebody tries to come up with something drastically simpler; an installer that is so dumbed down that it is borderline useless for all but the most trivial cases.

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The kbd Packages

In the current Tumbleweed, there are now two kbd packages:

• kbd-legacy, the old one
• kbd, the new one

To compare the package content, install QDirStat (zypper in qdirstat) and view both packages with qdirstat pkg:/kbd.

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YaST Maintenance Updates

Rough, incomplete, WIP, just to get a discussion going

Rough Outline

• Work in a Git branch for the desired released product, e.g. SLE-15-SP42
• Create a pull request from that, get it reviewed and merge it
• Upon merge, a GitHub action will trigger an (internal) Jenkins job:
• Build the package

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shundhammer: My Projects during FY 2021-2

Web version:

https://gist.github.com/shundhammer/424db1964e777b53aade124b84fd3875/

Overview

• yast/yast-installation#966
• https://github.com/yast/yast-widget-demo

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Stuck Maintenance Update for yast2-pkg-bindings in SLE-15-GA

yast2-pkg-bindings in SLE-15-GA:

https://build.suse.de/request/show/240601

This was declined with:

Please provide fixes for

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176275

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YaST Installer Features

This is related to the YaST Installer Steps document, but items are rearranged here to make the distinction clear between

• Settings for the installation procedure (installation language, keyboard)
• Installation preparation (storage setup, ???)
• Collecting data for later configuration

Settings for the Installation Procedure

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YaST Installer Steps

See also the simple standard installation screenshots (openSUSE Tumbleweed installation).

First (Simple) Hardware Probing

Detect

• system architecture

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Qt and HiDPI

Information Resources

Qt Reference Documentation

• High DPI displays

Qt Source Code (Qt 5.15.2)