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 This will mean out of date software will be on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
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