You're exactly right - the "otherpkgs" repo is for packages that are not part
of the official OS distribution.
Note that if you use "osimage" then you can specify a comma-separated list of
package directories for both pkgdir and otherpkgsdir. You will need to run
"createrepo" in each of the pac
Except in the domain portion, ‘_’ is a common prefix for SRV records, for
example. The host name portion is still technically restricted per IETF
standards.
Of course, a lot of dns implementations have started accepting _ ‘just
because’, but I don’t think an RFC ever came out to technically bl
To add to this, at least at the time there were a number of situations where
applications would fail if there were an underscore in a name. So we added
filtering out _.
This is all rooted in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952 which did not include
_ in the host name.
I have not revisited the
Good morning all,
when building images with extra packages, what is considered best practice? Or
to rephrase, what are the pros and cons of:
* adding lots of packages to the pglist file, as opposed to
* creating a repo and using otherpkglist and otherpkgdir
I can see where ot
It’s more fundamental than xCAT. The _ (underscore) is not allowed in DNS at
all; xCAT simply follows that rule.
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