AutoYaST profiles with bash commands fail to load after upgrading to SUSE Manager 2.1

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Environment

SUSE Manager 2.1

Situation

After upgrading to SUSE Manager 2.1 the following error might be experienced when reviewing AutoYaST profiles:

There are errors in your kickstart/autoyast template. Please check the 'Autinstallation File' tab to determine the problem with the template.

Checking the 'Autoinstallation File' tab shows:

<class 'Cheetah.Parser.ParseError'>:

A ')' was found at line 195, col 40 before a matching '}' was found
for the '{'
Line 191, column 7

Resolution

As of SUSE Manager 2.1 <source><![CDATA[....]]> sections need to be escaped with #raw....#endraw like:

<source><![CDATA[
#raw
...bash
...commands
...go
...here
#end raw
]]

Cause

With SUSE Manager 2.1 cheetah performs a cheetah-analyze run across the profile and reports this error.

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