Hello Bernard,

We installed the front node using network installation from our install 
server, A web server
that points to identical copy of DVD files.
Also updated the image from local update server which is synced with 
suse update
server every night.

As for package selection we choose packages based on our own experience, 
tools
we use and packages we need based on purpose of the cluster/server to be 
installed.
I don't think our package selection will affect much your users since 
you can specify required
packages for Oscar in packages/yume/prereqs.cfg to be installed by Oscar.

Our suggestion to SuSE users would be the following:

1. After applying updates to SuSE installation,  copy only full .rpm 
from updates to /tftpboot/distro/suse-10.0-i386/
and do not copy xxx.patch.rpm files.
2. Copy the /noarch/*.noarch.rpm files into 
/tftpboot/distro/suse-10.0-i386/noarch/ directory.

Regards
Mehrdad

Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi John: 
>
>   
>>> /tftpboot/distro/suse-10.0-i386, it doesn't need to be pre-installed
>>>       
>> That's where it is (See rpm -i line in original message below)
>>     
>
> Okay I think the issue is that packages/yume/prereqs.cfg is missing
> "sqlite" for [suse].  Can you please file a bug for that?
>
> BTW, can you describe how you install the headnode?  I'd like to figure
> out the "correct" type of installation we should tell our users to
> install, so as to ensure that the required RPMs are already installed on
> the headnode prior to OSCAR installation.
>
>   
>> I also notice that start_over removes it.
>>  Removing  : sqlite                       
>> ####################### [22/75]
>>     
>
> It should, since sqlite didn't exist on your OS prior to OSCAR
> installation, see this detailed description of what happens during
> start_over:
>
> http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/wiki/oscar:5.0:install_guide:ch5.1
> 3_starting_over
>
>   
>> Well, I'm actually using it as a production version, now that 
>> I've had a few 
>> months of experience with it. But I can report the result: 
>> removing pfilter 
>> everything installs perfectly, and all tests PASS.
>>     
>
> Great...  what happens if pfilter is enabled?  All of them fail?  What
> happens if you re-run the tests, would that work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bernard
>
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