Options Dialog

The options dialog is entered from the main dialog by clicking the Options button.

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First, enable SCPM. If disabled later, none of your configuration data in the profiles will be lost. It just keeps the current configuration of your system and you cannot switch to any other profile until you enable it again.

A configuration profile covers only the files and services to change when switching to another profile. In SCPM terminology, these files and services are called resources. Choose a resource set from the list.
There are some predefined resource sets:
- Typical: networking, mail, printing, nis, nfs
- Network only: networking
- FooBar: services foo and bar
- Everything: all installed services, all files below /etc and any other important file for any service

You may create your own individual resource set, but currently not with YaST2. See info scpm for information. Your manually created resource sets will then be available in this list as well. If you change the used resource set, all resources that will be deleted from the profiles are backed up below /var/lib/scpm/backup/.

For progress windows to close automatically, check Close progress pop-ups automatically. This box is also available in the progress pop-ups themselves.

General information

This dialog lets the user alter the global SCPM configuration. Up to now there is only the possibility to enable or disable SCPM, and to choose a Resource Set. Other options may follow.

Getting information

You need to determine wether SCPM is already enabled and initialized. This information is located in the scpm_status_t struct, namly in scpm_status_t::initialized and scpm_status_t::enabled . This information will also be needed when the user clicks ok. The defined Resource Sets can be determined by calling SCPM::ListResourceSets. You get two different list, one for predefined Resource Sets, and one for individual Resource Sets. These two lists get written to the list box, and should be separated by a line containing dashes (see picture). You can query the active Resource Set by calling SCPM::GetResourceSet. The Close progress popups automatically flag is taken from and saved to some YaST2 configuration space as it is front end specific anyway.

Actions to perform