Thanks Michael. I'll give that a try.
Steve
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Michael Robbert <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Steve,
> What we’ve usually done when we need these types of packages is to use
> yumdownloader on the management node. We figure out all the packages we’ll
> need, including dependencies, and with the proper repo configured on the
> management node call yum downloader for each package. Keep them all in one
> otherpkgs directory and each time we add or remove packages just re-run
> createrepo on that otherpkgs directory. Then just use “otherpkgs” as
> described in the xCAT documentation.
>
> Mike Robbert
>
> On Sep 17, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Ling Gao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> genimage for rh/sles/fedora assumes all the packages are local, or mounted.
>
>
> Ling Gao
> Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab
> IBM Systems and Technology Group
> Internal: T/L 293-5692
> External: [email protected], 845-433-5692
>
> "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
> Einstein
>
>
>
> From: Stephen Cousins <[email protected]>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
> Date: 09/16/2015 02:36 PM
> Subject: [xcat-user] How to get genimage to know about
> repositories like EPEL?
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Is there a way to include packages (like torque-client) that are in the
> EPEL repository when generating a stateless image with genimage? I see that
> there is "otherpkgs" that allows us to create our own repos but it looks
> like I'd need to sync the EPEL repo locally in order to do this.
>
>
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