Changelog for rear-SUSE-0.1.beta12-0.5.2.noarch.rpm :
Tue Jan 17 13:00:00 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 13:00:00 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 13:00:00 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 9 13:00:00 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 13:00:00 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 4 13:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 14:00:00 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 7 14:00:00 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 1 14:00:00 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de
- Fixed tar exclude value (now \'
*var/adm/autoinstall
*\').

Fri Jul 1 14:00:00 2011 jsmeixAATTsuse.de
- Initial version (related to fate#310991).