Mark, I jump this page directly to the Install Additional Other Packages for RHEL and SLES<https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/additionalpkg/nonubuntu_os_other_pkg.html>, I didn't saw the overview page, thanks for point it out
Regards, Daniel ________________________________ De: Daniel Hilst <dan...@versatushpc.com.br> Enviado: sexta-feira, 1 de novembro de 2019 15:50 Para: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Vinícius Ferrão <fer...@versatushpc.com.br> Assunto: RE: [xcat-user] What is the difference of pkglist and otherpkglist Hi Arif, Thank you for your reply. I also see things like you, I have more questions regarding this subject First, is there any pratical/technical difference between pkgdir/list and otherpkgdir/list? I mean, I could use pkgdir/list with subdirectories and not use otherpkgs at all? Is there any problems on this approach? Second, I saw that pkgdir and otherpkgdir support urls*, is this a undocumented feature? or it is use is discouraged? Regards ________________________________ De: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Enviado: sexta-feira, 1 de novembro de 2019 11:05 Para: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Vinícius Ferrão <fer...@versatushpc.com.br> Assunto: Re: [xcat-user] What is the difference of pkglist and otherpkglist Hello Arif, interesting way to do this things. I use a completely unapproved method of chrooting and yum installroot, which I know is broken. But I had a different understanding of pkglist and otherpkglist. I was understanding that otherpkgs is for things that are standalone. For instance some scientific comercial software that provides a single RPM. Everything that have a web repository, like packages from EPEL, OpenHPC, Mellanox OFED, etc, should go on pkglist. One thing we can agree: this part of xCAT is extremely confusing and not well explained. Sent from my iPhone On 1 Nov 2019, at 09:51, Arif Ali <m...@arif-ali.co.uk> wrote: I need to install some softwares from OpenHPC repository and I'm in doubt about which one to use, pkglist/dir or otherpkglist/dir? What is the difference between this two? Hi Daniel, This is by no means a way that xCAT guys document it, but this is how we do it, and how we see things pkglist and pkgdir is for those packages that is from the distribution operating system, and therefore you should be able to just list these packages without naming any folders as such. These would be installed as part of anaconda (if you're a redhat based person). For example, we normally have 2 directories in the pkgdir, one for the base OS, and one for the updates (i.e. using CentOS base and updates) that have been sync'd to the xCAT master. Then while the machine is installing, it will install the updated packages, rather than having to install the base first, then apply the updates. This allows to have the latest kernel by default, and don't have to do extra reboots afterwards. The otherpkgdir and the otherpkglist is used for any packages that are not provided by the distribution operating system, and the packages from the web. I would normally add extras, opstools, slurm, cuda in this case In your scenario, we would go with adding OpenHPC into the otherpkglist I hope that makes sense regards, Arif _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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