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{{:Design Warning}}
The Mini-design of the item ospkgs enhancements to install/upgrade OS packages from Updates is as following:
Background
In xCAT, there are two methods to support osimage definition:
(1)The first method is that when the provmethod is set to install/netboot/statelite, copycds will generate the default osimages as following: rhels6.2-ppc64-install-compute, rhels6.2-ppc64-netboot-compute, rhels6.2-ppc64-statelite-compute and so on.
(2) The second method is that when the provmethod is set to one osimage, such as testimage which is defined by the users
It's flexible to use the second method in xCAT. Actually, we recommend the customers to define the osimage, and set the provmethod to one osimage, instead of install/netboot/statelite.
Currently, the pkgdir in the ospkgs scripts only supports one package path, and the kerneldir isn't support in the ospkgs.
Main Points
There are two parts in this item which will support for the second method of the osimage which is set to the provmethod, not support for the first method:
1. Support pkgdir with multiple paths in the ospkgs
2. Support kerneldir in the ospkgs
**[NOTE:]**We will support this item in sles11 and rhels6.
osimage definition and enhancement in ospkgs
At present, the osimage definition may be as following:
Object name: testimg
exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.exlist
imagetype=linux
osarch=ppc64
osname=Linux
osvers=rhels6.2
otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/rhels6.2/ppc64
permission=755
pkgdir=/install/rhels6.2/ppc64
pkglist=/install/custom/netboot/rh/compute.rhels6.ppc64.pkglist
postinstall=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels6.ppc64.postinstall
profile=compute
provmethod=netboot
rootimgdir=/install/netboot/rhels6.2/ppc64/testimg
To support the multiple paths of pkgdir and the kerneldir in the ospkgs, the osimage will be defined as following:
Object name: testimg
exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.exlist
imagetype=linux
kerneldir=/install/kernels
osarch=ppc64
osname=Linux
osvers=rhels6.2
otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/rhels6.2/ppc64
permission=755
pkgdir=/install/rhels6.2/ppc64/Server,/install/rhels6.2-updates/ppc64/Server
pkglist=/install/custom/netboot/rh/compute.rhels6.ppc64.pkglist
postinstall=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels6.ppc64.postinstall
profile=compute
provmethod=netboot
rootimgdir=/install/netboot/rhels6.2/ppc64/testimg
The ospkgs script will create the repos files for the kerneldir, and for each paths in the pkgdir. And when install/upgrade os packages, the repos files will be used.
News
- Apr 22, 2016: xCAT 2.11.1 released.
- Mar 11, 2016: xCAT 2.9.3 (AIX only) released.
- Dec 11, 2015: xCAT 2.11 released.
- Nov 11, 2015: xCAT 2.9.2 (AIX only) released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT 2.10 released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT migrates from sourceforge to github
- Jun 26, 2015: xCAT 2.7.9 released.
- Mar 20, 2015: xCAT 2.9.1 released.
- Dec 12, 2014: xCAT 2.9 released.
- Sep 5, 2014: xCAT 2.8.5 released.
- May 23, 2014: xCAT 2.8.4 released.
- Jan 24, 2014: xCAT 2.7.8 released.
- Nov 15, 2013: xCAT 2.8.3 released.
- Jun 26, 2013: xCAT 2.8.2 released.
- May 17, 2013: xCAT 2.7.7 released.
- May 10, 2013: xCAT 2.8.1 released.
- Feb 28, 2013: xCAT 2.8 released.
- Nov 30, 2012: xCAT 2.7.6 released.
- Oct 29, 2012: xCAT 2.7.5 released.
- Aug 27, 2012: xCAT 2.7.4 released.
- Jun 22, 2012: xCAT 2.7.3 released.
- May 25, 2012: xCAT 2.7.2 released.
- Apr 20, 2012: xCAT 2.7.1 released.
- Mar 19, 2012: xCAT 2.7 released.
- Mar 15, 2012: xCAT 2.6.11 released.
- Jan 23, 2012: xCAT 2.6.10 released.
- Nov 15, 2011: xCAT 2.6.9 released.
- Sep 30, 2011: xCAT 2.6.8 released.
- Aug 26, 2011: xCAT 2.6.6 released.
- May 20, 2011: xCAT 2.6 released.
- Feb 14, 2011: Watson plays on Jeopardy and is managed by xCAT!
- xCAT Release Notes Summary
- xCAT OS And Hw Support Matrix
- xCAT Test Environment Summary
History
- Oct 22, 2010: xCAT 2.5 released.
- Apr 30, 2010: xCAT 2.4 is released.
- Oct 31, 2009: xCAT 2.3 released.
xCAT's 10 year anniversary! - Apr 16, 2009: xCAT 2.2 released.
- Oct 31, 2008: xCAT 2.1 released.
- Sep 12, 2008: Support for xCAT 2
can now be purchased! - June 9, 2008: xCAT breaths life into
(at the time) the fastest
supercomputer on the planet - May 30, 2008: xCAT 2.0 for Linux
officially released! - Oct 31, 2007: IBM open sources
xCAT 2.0 to allow collaboration
among all of the xCAT users. - Oct 31, 1999: xCAT 1.0 is born!
xCAT started out as a project in
IBM developed by Egan Ford. It
was quickly adopted by customers
and IBM manufacturing sites to
rapidly deploy clusters.