Other ideas, improvements or even dreams

yast / yast-firstboot

YaST module firstboot

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Other ideas, improvements or even dreams #119

Open dgdavid opened 3 years ago

dgdavid commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

More Ideas

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

This goes in the same direction as https://github.com/yast/yast-firstboot/issues/116#issuecomment-762762488.

wfeldt commented 3 years ago

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

wfeldt commented 3 years ago

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.