hi all,

I'm new to xcat. I've set up the xcat management node and successfully
provisioned one compute node.

the issue I encounter is "install other packages on compute node."

I followed this link

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Install_Additional_Packages

to setup the other package repository and this link

http://xcat.sourceforge.net/man1/updatenode.1.html

to update the compute node. but unfortunately, updatenode command
failed due to missing dependency of my packages.

I'm sure that all my packages are in the "other package" repository
(/install/post/otherpkgs/rhels5.5/x86_64). and all the dependency
packages can be found in distribution repository.

i quickly go through the "otherpkgs" script and find that it use "rpm
-Uvh" to install the packages I specified in
/install/custom/install/rh/compute-rhel-5.5-x86_64.otherpkgs.pkglist.
and looks like before installation, otherpkgs will use wget to
download the rpms. i think this cause the problem. i also find that
this "yum" in this script.

so my question is:

1. how can i make yum to install my packages? i think yum can resolve
the dependency problem.
2. otherwise, is it possible that I add my packages into the
distribution repository which is created by copyids. and specify my
packages in the profile.pkglist file.

any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

thanks,

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