Hello,

I wonder if we could facilitate the installation of any OSCAR server on
any distribution without doing our own OSCAR distribution ?

Why not provide a very extensive list of rpm for the server ? This list
will automatically be installed (if necessary) from the /tftpboot/rpm
directory before any OSCAR operation.

This list should be a "typical" OSCAR-headnode install and would be
listed in the oscarsamples/distro-version-headnode.rpmlist
It will include services required by OSCAR, libraries & co required by
OSCAR packages.


With this "middle" solution, we are not doing any dependency checking
but we are certain that an OSCAR head node will have at least the RPM
required by the current OSCAR ?



Another solution is automatic dependency checking. It can be complicated and even
not-functionnal because some RPMs packages provided by the distro are
broken. Anyway, I really believe that using an existing tool
(urpmi/autoupdate) can solve 99.9% of the problems...

Ben
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