As the YaST team keeps implementing new features and bug fixes we also keep delivering our small activity reports. As you may remember, we ran a small survey to collect our readers’ opinion about the recent changes introduced in these reports. We will today take a look to the results of the survey. But first things first, let’s go over the most relevant pull requests in the YaSTphere from the latest two weeks.

Summary of the (Auto)YaST Changes

• Research about the differences in the look&feel of the installer and YaST Firstboot, including several fixes and a whole new document summarizing the current inconsistencies and how we plan to address them.
• Several fixes related to the usage of the firstboot_hostname client, including a fixed crash and improved hostname validation.
• More accurate detection of the installation medium type when SMT (SUSE Subscription Management Tool) is used to mirror the repositories from SCC (SUSE Customer Center) during installation.
• Better support in the Partitioner for the different types of LVM logical volumes (RAID, cache, snapshots, etc.). That includes better visualization and informative warnings, as well as automatic removal of dependant snapshots.
• AutoYaST now exports the SUSE registration settings.
• Improved support for the so-called Repository Variables (like ${releasever}) in the URL of the repositories during system upgrade.
• Extend the support of Repository Variables to also cover the name of the repositories, in addition to the already mentioned support in URLs.
• Adapted YaST to handle the new location of the krb5 files, both in yast2-auth-server and yast2-users.
• Many internal improvements regarding AutoYaST.

Our readers have spoken

But the previous list of improvements is not the only news we have for you. We got 31 answers to our survey about how our readers use the YaST blog post and we want to share the results with you.

The detailed report with all the numbers can be read in this mail, but the most important conclusions we have taken are:

• Most participants are loyal readers (71% of them read the blog regularly).
• Most readers define themselves as just (open)SUSE users (74%).
• Both formats we have tried for the posts (long stories vs digests of links) are valued by our readers in a similar way.

Since the current digest format is way easier to put together, we will keep it for the time being. Thanks a lot for all the input, it was really helpfull!

See you in the next sprint report!