Hi Brad, On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:50, Brad Aisa wrote: > [posted also to devel because I'm running FC5/Oscar 5] > > I've discovered my first big issue today with my ancient FC5 kernel (2054) > (can't compile the nvidia driver, known bug with this kernel version) -- I > want to update my system, or at least parts of it. I'll need other stuff > updated too I know for sure (gcc, other stuff). > > But there were dire warnings about not updating a system when using OSCAR. I > could find no section in the Oscar manuals on the overall approach one needs > to take.
Sorry for the missing documentation, we'll try to improve that ASAP. The warnings about updating an OSCAR system should not be taken too seriously. Updating is possible but with OSCAR versions <5 you should better know what you're doing. The main reason for having warnings here is that you get quickly into trouble if your repository packages are newer than those installed on the master node. And vice-versa. > Can I update my system using yum to the latest version of FC5??? Yes. But after updating the master node you MUST update your distro repository (/tftpboot/distro/fedora-5-i386/). In case you use remote repositories (/tftpboot/distro/fedora-5-i386.url file) you must add to it the URL of a FC5 updates repository. If you use normal (local) repositories (where you copied your RPMs from the DVD to /tftpboot/distro/fedora-5-i386/) $OSCAR_HOME/scripts/repo-update makes your life easier when updating. What you need to do is: cd /tftpboot/distro/fedora-5-i386/ repo-update --url http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fedora/updates/5/i386/ --rmdup > Would it be better if I do this now, and then rebuild my kernel images? > (Before I do my actual cluster install?) Yas. That simplifies things a lot! > How do I make sure the new rpms are the ones in the image? (I copied the DVD > to the tftpboot folder, but if I do yum, then I won't know where the > packages are) If you use "yume" instead of "yum" you will be using the repositories known by OSCAR, i.e. those in /tftpboot/distro/*. > Just as a comment, the installation manual is great, but this entire aspect > of updating a system is important and doesn't seem to be treated anywhere. I > would highly recommend adding an explanatory section to the installation > manual. Thanks for pointing this out. As said, it is possible, and we'll add documentation on this really soon. It will go to the wiki. Best regards, Erich _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
