I was actually going to ask the same question Keith was asking.
I think Keith wasn't asking about the xcat repositories, but about the
operating system repositories (the ones that are ordinarily created by the
copycds command).
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Casandra H Qiu <cxh...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> yes, you can use online repo.
>
> In the http://xcat.org/download.html, there are links to xcat repo file.
> https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/yum/2.14/xcat-core/xcat-core.repo
>
>
> Here is another example:
>
> # cat xcat-core.repo
> [xcat-core]
> name=xcat-core
> baseurl=http://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/yum/devel/core-snap
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
>
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> PM---Hello All, The references I see to creating repos (base, or up]Keith
> Ball ---08/21/2018 06:36:10 PM---Hello All, The references I see to
> creating repos (base, or updates) on the xCAT
>
> From: Keith Ball <kb...@redlineperf.com>
> To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: 08/21/2018 06:36 PM
> Subject: [xcat-user] Using online repos with xCAT
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> The references I see to creating repos (base, or updates) on the xCAT
> management node all indicate that only local repos are supported (e.g.
> "baseurl=file:///......").
>
> Is there any way to use actual online repos with xCAT? If not, how can one
> sensibly update the OS on a regular basis? (seems that "reposync" can be
> used and just dump the latest update RPMs to a specific directory, then
> update that repo?)
>
> BTW: I am using RHEL7. Also, I am using an x86 management node with
> ppc64le compute nodes, and xcat 2.14.2.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
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