Changelog for rear-SUSE-0.1.beta12-0.lp150.5.1.noarch.rpm :

* Tue Jan 17 2012 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Made RecoveryImage work with symbolic links by dereferencing symbolic links in commands like \'du -L\' and \'file -L\'.- Fixed wrong file name in error messages (bnc#741865).
* Wed Dec 21 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added support to specify an autoinst executable via AUTOINST_FILE. This way the executable can make the AutoYaST control file and finally it tells RecoveryImage the path to \'autoinst.xml\' via \'stdout\'.- Added support to specify a medium executable via MEDIUM_URI. This way the executable can make a medium ISO file or a medium directory and finally it tells RecoveryImage the path via \'stdout\'.- All variables which are modified or created are automatically exported to have them available in a backup executable, an autoinst executable, and a medium executable.
* Fri Dec 16 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added support to specify a backup executable via BACKUP_URI. This way the executable can make the backup (e.g. a script which runs \'tar\') and finally it tells RecoveryImage the actual URI of the backup via \'stdout\'.- Added a man page for RecoveryImage (bnc#735874).- Using SPDX license identifier \'GPL-2.0\' in RPM spec file, see http://spdx.org/licenses/
* Fri Dec 09 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Replaced the non-working \'-c exclude-configuration\' option by a better working \'-c skip-second-stage\' option which is nevertheless still an experimental feature where the whole \'second stage\' of the installation is skipped which means that no configuration is done by AutoYaST so that all configuration files must come from the backup and explained it in the README file (bnc#729509).- Replaced the \'-r exclude-restore-log\' option by a more suitable option \'-r restore-exclude-default\' where /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and /var/adm/autoinstall/
* are excluded from the restore, see \"questionable ... to restore /etc/fstab\" and \"not ... make sense ... restored ... /etc/mtab\" in the changelog entries below.- Test that what is specified via \"-b BACKUP_URI\" points to a regular file of type \'tar archive ... compressed data\' so that it seems to be really a gzipped tar archive (bnc#734487).- Downgrade the fatal error when partitioning/software/bootloader section is missing in autoinst.xml to a warning because AutoYaST can work without those sections and use the standard proposal that YaST would present in a manual installation (bnc#735652).- Downgrade the warning when autoinst.xml fails to pass RELAX NG schema test to a notification to avoid false alarms (bnc#734498) because it is non-critical and fails \"since ever\" (bnc#211014).
* Thu Nov 24 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added \'isohybrid\' support in RecoveryImage to make the ISO image so that it can also boot from an USB stick.- Let RecoveryImage remove sections in autoinst.xml by default via xsltproc and use sed only as fallback (bnc#727990).- Fixed bug that \'RecoveryImage ... -m use-existing-ISO-files ...\' did no longer work (bnc#728919).- Enhanced README file to describe what to do with filesystems that are not supported by YaST and how to backup and restore data on those filesystems (related to bnc#713409 in particular see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713409#c4).- Enhanced README file to describe why it is usually required to run the YaST configuration modules for network setup during the \"second stage\" (related to bnc#729509).- Enhanced README file to describe why it is questionable if it makes sense to restore /etc/fstab from the backup.- Let RecoveryImage make a backup of the original autoinst.xml as autoinst.xml.orig on the ISO image.- Let RecoveryImage just before actually making the ISO image copy the current primary log file content into the ISO_DIR to have as much log content as possible on the ISO image which should in particular make debugging hopefully easier.
* Fri Nov 04 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added support to let RecoveryImage remove configuration sections from the AutoYaST control file to let AutoYaST skip those configurations (bnc#725364 in particular see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725364#c8).- Let RecoveryImage work with existing AutoYaST scripts (e.g. scripts to automatically start the restore agent of a third-party backup solution) and added documentation for such cases to the README file (bnc#726396).- RecoveryImage tests if the backup.tar.gz is suspicious small and shows a warning is such cases (bnc#725171).
* Thu Oct 20 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added support to specify the medium also as ISO file or let RecoveryImage download an ISO image of the medium via a MEDIUM_URI of the form \'http://server/path/medium.iso\'.- Test if autoinst.xml belongs to other host is no longer fatal so that RecoveryImage can run on one host (e.g. the NFS server) to make ISO images for other hosts there (bnc#725117).
* Tue Oct 18 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- RecoveryImage tests the AutoYaST autoinst.xml file for \"suspicious partitioning data\" (i.e. when a partition should be created without filesystem and mounted - which cannot work) and shows a warning message in such cases (e.g. see bnc#718118). Added documentation for such cases to the README file.- RecoveryImage uses getopts to parse parameters (bnc#714018).
* Fri Jul 29 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added support to use one same ISO files directory via NFS to make revovery ISO images on many \"similar hosts\" where each \"similar host\" has its own AutoYaST control file.- SystemRecovery.sh was renamed to RecoveryImage so that the name matches better to what it actually does.
* Fri Jul 22 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added support that the base directory where SystemRecovery.sh stores its files can be also specified as \'nfs://host/directory\' so that SystemRecovery.sh can work directly via network.- Added an option to use a base directory \'nfs://host/directory\' also for the log files and an option to use an \'autoinst.xml\' file from the base directory.
* Wed Jul 13 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added option to exclude arbitrary files from the backup restore via tar patterns so that the backup can contain all files even if not all files make sense to be restored (e.g. /etc/mtab).
* Thu Jul 07 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Added option to let AutoYaST skip to install RPMs and to remove the RPM payload in the ISO image which results a small recovery medium (about 400MB).
* Fri Jul 01 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Fixed tar exclude value (now \'
*var/adm/autoinstall
*\').
* Fri Jul 01 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de- Initial version (related to fate#310991).