Kevin, you might want to check upstream_sync.py, for mirroring RHN: https://github.com/pyther/upstream_sync <https://github.com/pyther/upstream_sync>
Let me hijack this thread, which procedure will be the correct one to ditch copycds? Who will create the images on the definition tables? Thanks, > On 12 Nov 2018, at 15:26, Kevin Keane <kke...@sandiego.edu> wrote: > > Thank you! I'm not sure when I'd get around to doing such a PR. > > For the time being, my plan B is to build a local repository, similar to what > copycds does - but I'll use reposync to retrieve the RPMs from the > SSL-protected repository. > > Even with that limitation, your pointer to being able to use repository URLs > is still invaluable - I can use that approach for the EPEL and other > repositories. > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________________________________ > Kevin Keane | Systems Architect | University of San Diego ITS | > kke...@sandiego.edu <mailto:kke...@sandiego.edu> > Maher Hall, 192 |5998 Alcalá Park | San Diego, CA 92110-2492 | 619.260.6859 > > REMEMBER! No one from IT at USD will ever ask to confirm or supply your > password. > These messages are an attempt to steal your username and password. Please do > not reply to, click the links within, or open the attachments of these > messages. Delete them! > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 2:55 AM Song BJ Yang <yang...@cn.ibm.com > <mailto:yang...@cn.ibm.com>> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Now we do not have such support, sorry for inconvenience, one possible > solution is you can leverage `postinstall` attribute to inject the scripts to > compose additional yum config files, RHN certificates and invoke yum commands > to install/update packages from RHN. We will consider this feature request, > but cannot promise its priority or date.... > > or if you would like to complete some mechanism to support this, it will be > much appreciated if you can create a PR on this > > > best regards > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > YANG Song (杨嵩) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82452903 > Email: yang...@cn.ibm.com <mailto:yang...@cn.ibm.com> > 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 > > > ----- Original message ----- > From: Kevin Keane <kke...@sandiego.edu <mailto:kke...@sandiego.edu>> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> > Cc: > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Using online repos with xCAT > Date: Sat, Nov 10, 2018 8:36 AM > > Thank you so much for point out that pkgdir can also take a repository URL! > That will turn out ot be invaluable in our situation, once I get it to work. > > My next question is whether there is a way to inject a setting into the yum > configuration file that genimage uses? We are a RedHat shop and have enough > RedHat subscriptions for all our nodes, of course. We keep our yum repository > on a Satellite server. But that only works with the configuration in > /etc/yum.repos.d, not with the transient one one that genimage generates on > the fly in /tmp. The actual problem is that the yum repository is protected > with a client certificate, which has to be added to the repository. > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Kevin Keane | Systems Architect | University of San Diego ITS | > kke...@sandiego.edu <mailto:kke...@sandiego.edu> > Maher Hall, 192 |5998 Alcalá Park | San Diego, CA 92110-2492 | 619.260.6859 > > REMEMBER! No one from IT at USD will ever ask to confirm or supply your > password. > These messages are an attempt to steal your username and password. Please do > not reply to, click the links within, or open the attachments of these > messages. Delete them! > > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:10 PM Song BJ Yang <yang...@cn.ibm.com > <mailto:yang...@cn.ibm.com>> wrote: > Hi Keith, > > > 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:///......"). > > for redhat diskless osimage, we do support online repo in pkgdir, for > example, > `chdef -t osimage -o myosimage -p pkgdir=http://rh.com/updates > <http://rh.com/updates>` > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > YANG Song (杨嵩) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82452903 > Email: yang...@cn.ibm.com <mailto:yang...@cn.ibm.com> > 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 > > > ----- Original message ----- > From: "Bin XA Xu" <bx...@cn.ibm.com <mailto:bx...@cn.ibm.com>> > To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Using online repos with xCAT > Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2018 10:50 AM > > Hi Kevin, > > xCAT can support multiple OS update repo on local, you just need set multiple > repo directories for pkgdir attribute of osimage > https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/additionalpkg/nonubuntu_os_pkg.html?highlight=osupdate > > <https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/additionalpkg/nonubuntu_os_pkg.html?highlight=osupdate> > > So beside the local OS repo created by copycd, you can use other way (for > example, reposync) to create local OS update repository, and update your > osimage to use it. > > > Bin Xu > HPC Software Development > Software Defined Infrastructure, IBM Systems > Phone: 86-010-82454067 > E-mail: bx...@cn.ibm.com <mailto:bx...@cn.ibm.com> > > > ----- Original message ----- > From: Kevin Keane <kke...@sandiego.edu <mailto:kke...@sandiego.edu>> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> > Cc: > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Using online repos with xCAT > Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2018 11:35 PM > > For us, the size of the local repos is not an issue - we already have local > repos anyway, and use RedHat's Satellite server to manage them. Compounding > this, we use stateless nodes, so every reboot would re-download a lot of RPMs. > > Building images with genimage the standard xCAT way ends up with horrendously > outdated software (and in at least one case, we ran into version > incompatibilities).. > > I'm currently working on a "cobbled-together" way to build a local repo to > replace the one xCAT uses, but I'd much prefer to have it officially > supported by xCAT. > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Kevin Keane | Systems Architect | University of San Diego ITS | > kke...@sandiego.edu <mailto:kke...@sandiego.edu> > Maher Hall, 192 |5998 Alcalá Park | San Diego, CA 92110-2492 | 619.260.6859 > > REMEMBER! No one from IT at USD will ever ask to confirm or supply your > password. > These messages are an attempt to steal your username and password. Please do > not reply to, click the links within, or open the attachments of these > messages. Delete them! > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 1:55 AM, Hermann Jonathan (CI/OSB5) > <jonathan.herma...@de.bosch.com <mailto:jonathan.herma...@de.bosch.com>> > wrote: > Hi Kilian, > > have you compared download sizes for repos vs. having each node go online? In > my experience, repos contain WAY more packages than are actually installed on > cluster nodes. Saving bandwidth only works with a reasonably high number of > nodes of the same architecture. Delta packages, if available, help to even > further reduce bandwidth. As does a proxy tailored to your needs. > > Controlling versions is easier though with local repos. Could also be done > with config mgmt, and more flexible so. But local repos are the easy way for > sure. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards > > Jonathan Hermann > > CI Operations - Server Services IBM AIX (CI/OSB5) > Robert Bosch GmbH | Postfach 30 02 20 | 70442 Stuttgart | GERMANY | > www.bosch.com <http://www.bosch.com/> > Tel. +49 711 811-57169 | Mobil +49 152 07563620 | > jonathan.herma...@de.bosch.com <mailto:jonathan.herma...@de.bosch.com> > > Sitz: Stuttgart, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14000; > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Franz Fehrenbach; Geschäftsführung: Dr. Volkmar > Denner, > Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Dr. Michael Bolle, Dr. Rolf Bulander, Dr. > Stefan Hartung, Dr. Markus Heyn, > Dr. Dirk Hoheisel, Christoph Kübel, Uwe Raschke, Peter Tyroller > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kilian Cavalotti <kilian.cavalotti.w...@gmail.com > <mailto:kilian.cavalotti.w...@gmail.com>> > Sent: Mittwoch, 22. August 2018 18:02 > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Using online repos with xCAT > > Hi Kevin, Keith, > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Kevin Keane <kke...@sandiego.edu > <mailto:kke...@sandiego.edu>> wrote: > > 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). > > We usually do it by either mirroring those repositories on the management > node (which is good to make sure all the nodes get the same version of the > repo at any given time, and to save bandwidth), or by adding online > repositories on the nodes in postscripts. > > Cheers, > -- > Kilian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech > sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot <http://sdm.link/slashdot> > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > <http://sdm.link/slashdot> > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > <http://sdm.link/slashdot> > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > <http://sdm.link/slashdot> > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > <http://sdm.link/slashdot>_______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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