There are a couple of reasons for having the sets in XML. We want users to be able to easily make their own sets as well as quickly look at existing package sets. The hope is that people will make many small sets of their own that can be combined to make a customized OSCAR install. This is true for both packages and machines. For machines, there would be many small subsets of the larger cluster so each machine can be customized easily (i.e. have one package on these server/clients and another on these, and another on all). There is no easy way for a user to access the database, especially since it is not even created at the time they need to access it (when they are designing their cluster). If it is a fresh install, the database won't be created until after the install kicks off, but it is needed long before that if the sets were to be in it.
I do agree that it might be useful to put the result of the machine set information into the database for other parts of OSCAR to use once the set manager has done it's work to combine the package sets and machine sets. This would be something that can be added. Does that clear things up? Wesley Jean Parpaillon wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I had a look at MSM and PSM pages on wiki and I have a few remarks. > > Package set are commonly used on distributions, called as meta-package. > That means that they are packages which contain nothing but dependencies. > If I understand, the advantage of OSCAR Package Set are to define them > more dynamically than having to create meta-package. > > And now, my question is about the way you store your datas. You store > them in XML files. Shouldn't it be easier to add/update/remove in the > OSCAR Database ? Furthermore, information about nodes and group of nodes > (MSM) can be useful for other part of OSCAR and could be stored into the > ODA too. > > If you need more information about adding a field or a table in ODA, you > can contact DongInn. > > > > Regards, > Jean > > > - -- > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Kerrighed inside - OSCAR outside > http://kerrighed.org/ http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/ > > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Jean PARPAILLON - Engineer - PARIS group - Office E210 > > IRISA-INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France > Tél: +33 2 99 84 22 33, Fax: +33 2 99 84 71 71 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGoNM88P+pSEjr0u4RAr7AAJ9vx/aDc2tCcF1TnksDQhvIm825xACfY4p3 > CrZ9DaX+O4Bn4/MxpfLjOMA= > =ko+7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > Oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > -- Wesley Bland ORNL Summer Intern v3.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list Oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
