This problem is resolved now, so updating of xcat directly from sourceforge
should be working again now.

Sourceforge made a change to their software last week that has a problem if
there are any sym links in the download file system.  We had a few sym
links called "stable" that i removed, which leads me to the next point...

If you update your xcat mgmt node directly from the SF repo and you have
"stable" in the url path in your repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d or in the
zypper config, you will have to change "stable" to "2.8" and will have to
update this value for each major release you want to move up to in the
future.  If you don't know what i'm talking about, then this doesn't apply
to you, because xcat doesn't set up the repo files like this by default, so
you would have had to explicitly do this.

Bruce Potter        STSM, Linux & AIX Cluster Development, IBM,
Poughkeepsie, NY
Email: [email protected]    Phone:  external: 845-433-7073, internal: TL
293-7073




From:   Bruce M Potter/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS
To:     [email protected],
Date:   08/28/2013 09:38 AM
Subject:        [xcat-user] Updating xCAT Directly from the SourceForge Online
            Repository Isn't Working Right Now



For the last day or so, there seems to be a problem with the sourceforge
download servers responding to yum/zypper requests for the xcat rpms when
trying to update the xcat software on your mgmt node directly from
sourceforge.  This is only affecting the snap builds, so installing the
stable build directly from SF should work.  If you want to update your mgmt
node to the latest snap build, you can do that by downloading the tarball (
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/yum/stable/core-rpms-snap.tar.bz2
 or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/yum/devel/core-rpms-snap.tar.bz2
) and following the instructions in our cookbooks to run makelocalrepo.sh
to point yum/zypper to it.

Bruce Potter        STSM, Linux & AIX Cluster Development, IBM,
Poughkeepsie, NY
Email: [email protected]    Phone:  external: 845-433-7073, internal: TL
293-7073
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