Guang, First, thx for your response.
I should probably state this is a statefull installation. The reason for not using otherpkgs is we must have it done before the reboot. we could put the script in the postscripts and not in the postbootscripts but we did not want to mess with the environment (this is only part of the statefull installations we have in our cluster and looked for a solution that can keep the environment as generic as possible). This is also the reason for not updating the OS repo (/install/os/arch.. ) because we have a running system and we do not want to change the kernel on our statelite nodes and the other statefull nodes. this kernel change should apply only to one type of nodes (the service nodes due to this - https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7011397). We ended up adding this as a repo to the .tmpl file (not an easy task at all apparently.. you need to follow the add on rules of Yast, wasn't so trivial). Looks like the new feature will make everything much easier. thx. 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From: Guang Cheng Li <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 04/01/2013 09:10 Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Upgrading new kernel HI Gilad, The otherpkgs or ospkg should work: Otherpkg: # On MN, You need to: # 1. put rpms under /install/post/otherpkgs/os/arch directory where 'os' and 'arch' # can be found in the nodetype table. # 2. put the name of the packages to /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot(install)/platform # directory. The file name is one of the following: # profile.os.arch.otherpkgs.pkglist # profile.os.otherpkgs.pkglist # profile.arch.otherpkgs.pkglist # profile.otherpkgs.pkglist # 3. updatenode noderange otherpkgs ospkg: # On MN, You need to: # 1. update the rpms under /install/os/arch/... directory where 'os' and 'arch' # can be found in the nodetype table. # 2. put new package names to /install/custom/netboot(install)/platform or # /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot(install)/platform # directory. The file name is one of the following: # profile.os.arch.pkglist # profile.os.pkglist # profile.arch.pkglist # profile.pkglist # updatenode noderange ospkgs BTW, in xCAT 2.8, a new feature was added to support os updates, you could specify the pkgdir to be multiple paths like: pkgdir=<osbasedir>,<osupdatesdir>, then the os installation or updatenode could recognize the os updates automatically. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Email: [email protected] Address: Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, No.8, Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing 100193, PRC 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼 邮编: 100193 Gilad Berman ---2013-01-03 18:34:12---Hello list, i looked on the web site and i'm sure i missed something - From: Gilad Berman <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Date: 2013-01-03 18:34 Subject: [xcat-user] Upgrading new kernel Hello list, i looked on the web site and i'm sure i missed something - What is the best way to upgrade new kernel on the machines installed by xCAT. the tricky issue (??) is that those servers are also used as service nodes and cNFS servers. Should we add this repo to the .tmpl file (similar to teh SDK)? thx in advance. Regards, Gilad Berman HPC Architect IBM System & Technology Group. 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