The Configuration Management System offers an option for importing
a foreign auto-installation configuration file using the
Kickstart
system. To import a Kickstart file, you only need
to enter the path of the configuration file and decide how to handle
the data, by either saving the result into a file directly or by
loading the resulting AutoYaST compatible control file into the
Configuration Management System to add more configuration options
available with SuSE. The following sections describe some limitations
and issues to consider when importing from a foreign source:
8.2.1. Software selections and packages
It is not possible at the moment to import package selections and
single package listing into AutoYaST. The packages will be
added to the control file, but manual selection of the desired
packages is needed. The reason is that package groups and package
names might differ depending on the source distribution
Kickstart offers two types of scripts, pre and
post scripts. More scripts (>2) are
not supported as in AutoYaST. So it might be needed to split large
scripts into smaller components depending on the function to make
such scripts manageable
