The yum update -y that you saw should be running in the chroot environment,
so the only way it would see your repos is if you added the live repos to
/install/netboot/<os>/<arch>/compute/rootimg/etc/yum.repos.d
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Hakan Bayındır <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Russ,
>
> Thanks for your answer. To test, I reinstalled the host with only
> "otherpkgs" post boot script. After checking the duplicates (with
> /usr/bin/yum --showduplicates list <package-name>), it actually ran "yum
> -y upgrade" and upgraded to system to latest packages before installing
> my other packages.
>
> Actually in file /install/postscripts/otherpkgs, line 783; the script
> explicitly calls result=`eval $envlist yum -y upgrade 2>&1` and upgrades
> the whole system.
>
> I can modify the script, but wanted to ask whether there's a better way
> to modify behavior of the said script.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hakan
>
> On 10/04/2017 02:27 PM, Russ Auld wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that it does not update the operating system to the
> > latest version automatically.
> >
> > The "otherpkgs" postscript creates repos based on the files and their
> > directories specified in the "otherpkgs" file set in the "osimage".
> > It then uses the platform's package manager to install the packages
> > listed in the "otherpkgs" file.
> > It doesn't run "yum update" (for instance) as you are suggesting.
> >
> > You should take a closer look at the postscripts that are being run and
> > the repositories that are created on the node.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 13:55 +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> The xCAT's otherpackages script updates the operating system to the
> >> latest version automatically. Is there a way, or best practice to
> >> install "other packages" without updating the operating system to the
> >> latest version?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Hakan Bayindir
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