Vinícius Ferrão
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ospkgs and otherpkgs passed --force-yes to every apt-get upgrade and install. apt has printed a deprecation warning for it since 1.1, and the flag also allowed downgrades, changes to held packages and the removal of essential packages, none of which an unattended package update should do. Three of the ospkgs installs relied on it alone for the unsigned xCAT repositories and ran without DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, unlike the upgrade. The 8 call sites now go through xcat_apt_get in xcatpkgutils.sh, which runs apt-get with -y and --allow-unauthenticated under DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive. Each call site keeps its own quiet, Dpkg and recommends options. A held package or an explicit older version now fails the install instead of being forced, as on the rpm side. --allow-unauthenticated is accepted by every apt release xCAT provisions. Signed-off-by: Vinícius Ferrão <2031761+viniciusferrao@users.noreply.github.com>
xCAT
xCAT is a toolkit for deployment and administration of clusters of all sizes.
The xCAT sunset was only a quick eclipse
Dear xCAT Community,
The xCAT sunset has changed course. VersatusHPC has been invited to join the xCAT Consortium, and future development will move toward direct upstream contributions coordinated with the Consortium and its existing member companies.
That matters most for Enterprise Linux 10 (EL10). EL10 support is coming to xCAT, restoring a future operating-system path for sites that still rely on xCAT. This is an important change from the previous sunset guidance, where the lack of an EL10 path was one of the strongest reasons to move away from xCAT.
The xCAT Consortium continues to recommend Confluent as the long-term successor to xCAT, and that remains the Consortium position. Users planning new cluster-management deployments should evaluate Confluent and its xCAT comparison documentation.
At the same time, xCAT is no longer sunsetted. The Consortium and participating companies will continue updating xCAT while there is community and user demand for it.
In summary:
- xCAT development is continuing upstream through the Consortium and participating companies.
- Enterprise Linux 10 support is coming.
- Confluent remains the Consortium-recommended successor and migration path.
- xCAT updates will continue while there is community and user demand.
We want to thank the xCAT Consortium and community for keeping this project moving. The sun went behind the moon for a moment, but xCAT is still here.
For more information on Confluent and how to get started, please visit the Confluent: Project Page, Documentation or Confluent vs xCAT comparison.
With thanks,
The xCAT Consortium
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