Hi Bruce, On Thursday 15 September 2005 15:30, Bruce Becker wrote: > > > If I understand correctly, this will help me to create an image with > > > yum as opposed to SIS, integrate it into OSCAR and then use it as > > > usual ? > > Yes, and it should make it easier to install/deinstall oscar packages on > > those > > images (with the help of yume-opkg). > Can anyone tell me why I can't do this properly with SIS ? I naively > thought that this is exactly what SIS is for - creating and managing > images...
SIS and OSCAR are kind of different things. In OSCAR you can do what you want with the images by using systeminstaller but you are limited to images based on the same distro and architecture as your master node. Currently there is only one method for integrating an image into OSCAR: by creating it from the wizard. With systemimager alone, you can do these things: use si_getimage from a golden client. That won't integrate the image fully with OSCAR. What I meant was installing and deinstalling OSCAR packages (these are NOT RPMs). That's where yume-opkg and yume help you, because of automatically resolve dependencies. You might still have to take care of the OSCAR API scripts coming with the packages. WARNING: Be careful when dealing with images coming from different distros! The system user ids are different between redhat and suse, therefore sync_files will overwrite system user ids in /etc/passwd and /etc/group with those from the master node! I have a solution for that, but need some time to polish it. Regards, Erich ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
