Hi Dominik:

I forgot to mention you also need yum-utils installed, since
yum-repoquery that is shipped with yume is not compatible with yum
version 3.0 and up:

http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/ticket/394

Cheers,

Bernard

On 8/19/07, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dominik:
>
> Good news, I got the OSCAR code from branch-5-0 working with openSUSE
> 10.2.  There are a few issues that need to be addressed, but the final
> outcome is that I could deploy the image and all tests complete (I
> didn't select any non-core packages, like Gangia, MPI, SGE/TORQUE,
> etc.)
>
> The main problem with image creation, is that for some reason
> scripts/distro-query cannot correctly detect the OS of remote
> repositories.  I am not sure if this is a bug or feature, but anyways
> I filed it here:
>
> http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/ticket/395
>
> To get around this issue, you need to modify /usr/bin/yume.  In line
> 241 it should read "return $dist;".  Add "$dist = "suse";" before that
> line.
>
> In this case, yume will always bootstrap (you will only be able to
> create openSUSE images, but not other distributions).  I hope that
> issue can be fixed soon as it affects SUSE support in general.
>
> Another related issue is there is a bug with the SystemImager 3.7.5
> RPMs -- basically there is a RPM which obsoletes itself and yum does
> not fail gracefully.  To get around this please download the
> development RPMs for SystemImager from here:
>
> http://therealms.org/oss/systemimager/
>
> (Copy the 3.9.2.99 RPMs to /tftpboot/oscar/common-rpms)
>
> There seems to be an issue with openSUSE 10.2's perl-AppConfig RPM as
> it is missing the dependency for perl-File-HomeDir.  I made changes to
> the code to accomodate this.  Please grab the files here:
>
> http://therealms.org/oss/oscar/opensuse-10.2
>
> The files should go to:
>
> oscarsamples/suse-10.2-i386.rpmlist
> share/prereqs/base/prereq.cfg
> packages/sis/config.xml
>
> This should get you going with OSCAR 5.0 and openSUSE 10.2.  Given the
> nature of these changes, it might be best if you start with a fresh
> install -- at the very least, run scripts/start_over to "uninstall"
> OSCAR and start again.  Please let me know if you run into other
> issues.
>
> Once you confirm things are working, I will check my changes into
> trunk.  Also, it would be great if you can contribute your RPMs so
> that we can include them in future releases of OSCAR.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
> On 8/19/07, Dominik Schips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello Bernard,
> >
> > Am Freitag, den 17.08.2007, 12:04 -0700 schrieb Bernard Li:
> > > Hi Dominik:
> > >
> > > Can you please post patches to all the code that you need to modify to
> > > support OSCAR on openSUSE 10.2 so that I can review and use for my
> > > testing?  I will probably work off of branch-5-0.
> >
> > Yes I can send some patches. But I can get access to my development
> > machine on Tuesday again because I am out of office on Monday.
> >
> > > Unfortunately I won't be able to use the RPMs you have built, since my
> > > MacBook is x86 only.
> >
> > You have one of the first MacBooks that did not have the newer Core 2
> > Duo CPUs that have the 64bit extensions build in.
> > But that should be no problem to get OSCAR work on openSUSE 10.2.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards
> >
> > Dominik Schips
> >
> >
>

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