As a follow up, if I have updated the pkgdir list on an osimage, how do I push 
out the new 
conf? Is it as easy as updatenode <noderange> -F? 

No, when I run that there's no addition to the target /etc/yum.repos.d/ ...

It is possible or is xcat designed that if you are going to update you may as 
well rebuild?

cheers
L.


On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 03:44 +0000, Lachlan Simpson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The latest security issue with sudo ( 
> https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0221 ) is making
> me
> look at how we distribute updates with xcat.
> 
> I'd appreciate hearing how others do this to keep it timely without 
> necessarily re-building the
> entire fleet or needing to go into maintenance mode.
> 
> We have an osimage list and within most of those we have a set of pkgdir set:
> 
> pkgdir=/install/centos7.8/x86_64,/install/epel/7/x86_64,/install/centos-updates/7.8/x86_64
> 
> (our last maintenance window was the day before 7.9 was released. Timing was 
> not excellent)
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if it wouldn't be smarter to just have these repos instead:
> 
> /install/centos/7/x86_64
> /install/epel/7/x86_64
> /install/centos-updates/7/x86_64
> 
> so we don't need to change our osimage defs all the time? 
> 
> Today's security issue has created a lot more work than I'd strictly like - 
> in situations like
> this
> I'd like to be able to sync my repos, and then `xdsh yum update -y sudo` and 
> leave it at that.
> 
> 
> How does everyone else manage this?
> 
> cheers
> L.
>         
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> 
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