Thanks. Just to be sure, in your first answer you point out that it is recommended to update the head node before the cluster installation. But, doing a later, subsequent update, AFTER, the cluster installation is OK right?
Dennis Gurgul Massachusetts General Hospital Research Management 617.724.3169 > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Dague [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:38 PM > To: Gurgul, Dennis J. > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Davidow, Lance S. > Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Using RH Update Agent > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 02:14:55PM -0400, Gurgul, Dennis J. wrote: > > Have OSCAR 1.3 on RH 7.2. Want to use the RH update tool (update agent) > that > > comes with the RH gui to go to the RH site and download update rpm's. > Esp. > > rpm's related to security updates, etc. > > > > The question is this. If OSCAR does things with the rpm's during the > install, > > will updating from the RH web site over write things that OSCAR did, > making it > > unuseable? > > Updating the head node in OSCAR with the RH update tool should not affect > OSCAR. It is actually very recommended to do this before installing the > cluster. (In 1.4 we will be providing a tool to do exactly this.) > > > If this can be done without breaking OSCAR, then another question is, if > the RH > > updates are not propagated to the client nodes, will that be a problem? > Since > > the clients are on the private network, I wouldn't be as concerned about > a > > security update for example. > > By default RH's update tool will not update the RPM repository that OSCAR > uses to build client images. This will mean out of date software will be > on > the client nodes. If the clients are all on a private network, then the > security implications of this are much less of an issue. If you want the > latest and greatest installed on the client nodes, download all the > updated RPMs > manually and place them in /tftpboot/rpm before building the client image. > > Then the image will be of the most up to date RPMs. Also coming in 1.4 is > a > mechanism to make this nealy automatic. > > -Sean > > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Sean Dague [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dague.net > > There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than > zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. > _______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
