I suspect you need to force the repodata on the nodes to be refreshed (e.g. xdsh all 'yum clean metadata; yum list updates') before the update (xdsh all 'yum -y update sudo'). Possibly xdsh 'yum makecache' would do for the refresh, but I haven't tried.
I also have to reduce the --fanout as otherwise my head node struggles... -- Dr. Jonathan Diprose <j...@well.ox.ac.uk> Tel: 01865 287837 Research Computing Manager Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN -----Original Message----- From: Lachlan Simpson <lachlan.simp...@unsw.edu.au> Sent: 27 January 2021 03:44 To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [xcat-user] Updating processes and set ups? 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. -- Lachlan Simpson Research Technology Services UNSW Research Technology Services Level 3, Chemical Sciences Building F10 UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA E: lachlan.simp...@unsw.edu.au W: https://research.unsw.edu.au T: (+612) 9065 4056 _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net 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
