Hakan,
So sorry, I did make the assumption that you were using a stateless or
statelite node. Those use the netboot folder, and for those images, the
otherpkgs install runs during the genimage stage as chroot.
If you are doing a full install, then I'm not actually sure when the
otherpkgs runs.
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Hakan Bayındır <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> That yum -y upgrade is running after the system has rebooted (the script
> is postbootscript). I don't think it's running under a chroot or any
> similar isolated environment.
>
> Additionally, my xCAT MN doesn't have an /install/netboot folder.
>
> However, I will double check whether the yum is running under chroot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hakan
>
> On 10/04/2017 11:50 PM, Kevin Keane wrote:
> > 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] <mailto:[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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