Other ideas, improvements or even dreams

[dgdavid]

Context

Going through the example included in SLES (see #115)

Ideas

• To offer multiple examples, like we do with https://autoyast.github.io/.

  Maybe having a "YaST Config Examples" site?

Dreams

• To use a more readable configuration/description file. E.g., YAML

   ---    
   layout: steps
   stage: normal
   workflow: 
     - language_and_keyboard:
         - title: 'Select your preferred language and keyboard layout'
     - welcome:
     - timezone:
     - user:
         - title: 'Create your user!'
         - autologin: false
         - root: false
       

  Some tools like Docker, Ansible and Kubernetes use it for their configuration files. Even there are tools for validating them, as for example https://www.kubeval.com/

[lslezak]

More Ideas

• Add a command line tool for enabling/disabling the firstboot module.

  Currently you have to touch the /var/lib/YaST2/reconfig_system file to activate the firstboot after boot. That's not much user friendly and leaks the implementation detail. It would be nice to have a command line tool which would work like this:

  • firstboot_config enable - enable firstboot (create the /var/lib/YaST2/reconfig_system file)
  • firstboot_config disable - disable firstboot (remove the /var/lib/YaST2/reconfig_system file if it exists)
  • firstboot_config status - print the current status (enabled/disabled)
  
  Later we could add some more commands like
  • firstboot_config validate - validate the XML config file (/etc/YaST2/firstboot.xml)

[dgdavid]

More Ideas

* Add a command line tool for enabling/disabling the firstboot module.
  Currently you have to touch the `/var/lib/YaST2/reconfig_system` file to activate the firstboot after boot. That's not much user friendly and leaks the implementation detail. It would be nice to have a command line tool which would work like this:
  
  * `firstboot_config enable` - enable firstboot (create the `/var/lib/YaST2/reconfig_system` file)
  * `firstboot_config disable` - disable firstboot (remove the `/var/lib/YaST2/reconfig_system` file if it exists)
  * `firstboot_config status` - print the current status (enabled/disabled)
  
  
  Later we could add some more commands like
  
  * `firstboot_config validate` - validate the XML config file (`/etc/YaST2/firstboot.xml`)

Even without using the _. I mean, simply yast firstboot enable or similar.

Anyway, good point! Thanks.

[joseivanlopez]

More Ideas

* Add a command line tool for enabling/disabling the firstboot module.

This goes in the same direction as #116 (comment).

[wfeldt]

Why not simply systemctl firstboot enable. Isn't that what poeple are used to today?

[wfeldt]

And yes, full support for going YAML.

While it is kind of a fashion like XML 20 years before it is much more appealing to humans.