Thank you Mark, we have now successfully implemented a multiple directory
pkgdir entry for this osimage object. We could see additional lines on the
Yast install screen with reducing counts of packages as they were installed
from the 3 different repositories. Better still the node booted OK afterwards
with the newer kernel supplied in this update and is running OK. We had a few
failed attempts but these turned out to be a typo in the path.
hn-01:~ # lsdef -t osimage -o sles12.5-x86_64-install-update-comp09 | grep
pkgdir
otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/sles12.5/x86_64
pkgdir=/install/sles12.5/x86_64,/install/sles12.5-1Q22/1/suse/x86_64,/install/sles12.5-1Q22/1/suse/noarch
hn-01:~ #
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Sent: 31 October 2022 18:48
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xcat2.16.3 osdistroupdate with SLES12.5
Clive, have you considered, instead of osdistroupdate feature, to just add a
second directory path to the pkgdir in the osimage definition ?
The process described here:
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Hi Mark, thanks for the reply. Our problem is that the customer account we work
on operates with very restricted external access so although we can copy in
ISOs such as the SLES base media and our DXC upgrade, we can’t access SuSE from
within
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Hi Mark, thanks for the reply. Our problem is that the customer account we
work on operates with very restricted external access so although we can copy
in ISOs such as the SLES base media and our DXC upgrade, we can’t access SuSE
from within the estate. So our thought was to use this DXC ISO to upgrade a
base SLES install via the osdistroupdate feature.
The 1q22 ISO a bootable install/upgrade iso put together by some penguins
somewhere within DXC previously HPE services, normally twice a year but this is
the latest one we can actually find. I don’t think I’m allowed to distribute it
outside of DXC.
We can use it manually from a remote console as boot media to upgrade a
base-installed SLES12.5 system so it’s a ‘proper’ iso I believe. I mounted it
on our test head node and have output the root directory and the folder tree
below. There isn’t a separate SDK folder tree, maybe its consolidated into the
suse/x86_64 folder. When we do COPYCDS we place it in a separate location
otherwise it gets dragged into a link within the main SLES12.5 copied files and
overwrites the original directory. We’ve put that back again by repeating our
original copycds and a second copy of the 1Q22,
hn-01:/mnt/iso # ls -l /mnt/iso/
total 46046
-r--r--r-- 13 hpsmh hpsmh 5802309 Nov 9 2019 ARCHIVES.gz
-r--r--r-- 15 hpsmh hpsmh 17992 Nov 23 2015 COPYING
-r--r--r-- 15 hpsmh hpsmh 25733 Nov 23 2015 COPYING.de
-r--r--r-- 15 hpsmh hpsmh 1455 Nov 23 2015 COPYRIGHT
-r--r--r-- 15 hpsmh hpsmh 1620 Nov 23 2015 COPYRIGHT.de
-r--r--r-- 13 hpsmh hpsmh 40497439 Nov 9 2019 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 hpsmh hpsmh 263633 Feb 14 2022 DXC-README.PDF
drwxr-sr-x 3 hpsmh hpsmh 2048 Feb 2 2022 EFI
-r--r--r-- 13 hpsmh hpsmh 48095 Nov 9 2019 INDEX.gz
-r--r--r-- 13 hpsmh hpsmh 156986 Nov 4 2019 NEWS
-r--r--r-- 13 hpsmh hpsmh 2910 Jul 23 2015 README
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hpsmh hpsmh 1 Feb 2 2022 SUSE_SLES-12.5 -> .
-r--r--r-- 1 hpsmh hpsmh 6025 Feb 14 2022 TRANS.TBL
drwxr-sr-x 3 hpsmh hpsmh 2048 Feb 2 2022 boot
-r--r--r-- 1 hpsmh hpsmh 9589 Feb 2 2022 content
-r--r--r-- 1 hpsmh hpsmh 198 Feb 2 2022 content.asc
-r--r--r-- 1 hpsmh hpsmh 27110 Feb 2 2022 content.key
-r--r--r-- 13 hpsmh hpsmh 52836 Oct 18 2019 control.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 hpsmh hpsmh 308 Feb 2 2022 directory.yast
drwxr-sr-x 3 hpsmh hpsmh 2048 Feb 2 2022 docu
drwxr-xr-x 2 hpsmh hpsmh 2048 Nov 23 2021 eds
-rw------- 1 hpsmh hpsmh 103371 Feb 14 2022 eds.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 hpsmh hpsmh 1748 Feb 2 2022 gpg-pubkey-0ACB864D.asc
-r--r--r-- 15 hpsmh hpsmh 955 Jul 12 2017 gpg-pubkey-39db7c82-5847eb1f.asc
-r--r--r-- 15 hpsmh hpsmh 975 Jul 12 2017 gpg-pubkey-50a3dd1c-50f35137.asc
-r--r--r-- 13 hpsmh hpsmh 109578 Nov 4 2019 license.tar.gz
drwxr-sr-x 2 hpsmh hpsmh 2048 Feb 2 2022 media.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 hpsmh hpsmh 2048 Feb 14 2022 opsagt
-r--r--r-- 15 hpsmh hpsmh 1288 Jul 12 2017 pubring.gpg
drwxr-sr-x 10 hpsmh hpsmh 2048 Feb 2 2022 suse
hn-01:/mnt/iso # du -BM
1M ./boot/x86_64/grub2-efi/themes/DXC/icons
1M ./boot/x86_64/grub2-efi/themes/DXC
1M ./boot/x86_64/grub2-efi/themes/SLE/icons
1M ./boot/x86_64/grub2-efi/themes/SLE
2M ./boot/x86_64/grub2-efi/themes
3M ./boot/x86_64/grub2-efi
193M ./boot/x86_64/loader
519M ./boot/x86_64
519M ./boot
18M ./docu/en
19M ./docu
1M ./eds
1M ./EFI/BOOT/locale
4M ./EFI/BOOT
4M ./EFI
1M ./media.1
76M ./opsagt
1M ./suse/i386
1M ./suse/i586
1M ./suse/i686
217M ./suse/noarch
1M ./suse/nosrc
1M ./suse/setup/descr
1M ./suse/setup/slide/pic
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/ar
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/cs
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/de
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/en
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/es
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/fr
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/hu
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/it
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/ja
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/ko
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/nl
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/pl
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/pt_BR
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/ru
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/sv
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/zh_CN
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt/zh_TW
1M ./suse/setup/slide/txt
1M ./suse/setup/slide
2M ./suse/setup
1M ./suse/src
374M ./suse/x86_64
592M ./suse
1254M .
hn-01:/mnt/iso
Best Regards,
Clive Robinson
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Sent: 27 October 2022 20:43
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xcat2.16.3 osdistroupdate with SLES12.5
Clive, where can I find this 1Q22 update ?
Is it a full OS iso, or just set of updated RPMs ?
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] xcat2.16.3 osdistroupdate with SLES12.5
We’re trying to implement a 2-stage install of SLES using 12. 5 base media from
2017 and a fairly wide-ranging update from 1Q22. We’ve done a copycds with both
isos (update copycds is targeted to a specific separate folder) and can
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We’re trying to implement a 2-stage install of SLES using 12.5 base media from
2017 and a fairly wide-ranging update from 1Q22. We’ve done a copycds with
both isos (update copycds is targeted to a specific separate folder) and can
perform a successful. base install only with various postscripts.
We’re now trying to use the osdistroupdate feature to define a new osimage that
uses the SLES 12.5 base as a start point and references the 1Q22 content as a
distro update. Problem is that we don’t see any effect from doing this,
checking on sample rpms from the update folder reveals that these don’t appear
on the target node, just the SLES base originals. We haven’t tried to perform
a geninitrd although the update does contain an updated kernel as you might
imagine. A few outputs from our config are below, any ideas?
hn-01:~ # xcatconfig -v
Version 2.16.3 (git commit d6c76ae5f66566409c3416c0836660e655632194, built Wed
Nov 10 09:58:20 EST 2021)
hn-01:~ # lsdef -t osimage "sles12.5-x86_64-install-update-comp09"
Object name: sles12.5-x86_64-install-update-comp09
imagetype=linux
osarch=x86_64
osdistroname=sles12.5-x86_64
osname=Linux
osupdatename=sles12.5-x86_64-1Q22
osvers=sles12.5
otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/sles12.5/x86_64
partitionfile=/install/custom/dxc/distro/compute.sles12.comp09.partitionfile
pkgdir=/install/sles12.5/x86_64
pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/sles/compute.sles12.pkglist
profile=compute
provmethod=install
synclists=/install/custom/dxc/distro/compute.sles12.custom.synclist
template=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/sles/compute.sles12.tmpl
hn-01:~ # lsdef -t osdistro sles12.5-x86_64
Object name: sles12.5-x86_64
arch=x86_64
basename=sles
dirpaths=/install/sles12.5/x86_64/1/suse/x86_64/
majorversion=12
minorversion=5
type=Linux
hn-01:~ # lsdef -t osdistroupdate sles12.5-x86_64-1Q22
Object name: sles12.5-x86_64-1Q22
dirpath=/install/sles12.5-1Q22/1/suse/x86_64/
osdistroname=sles12.5-x86_64
hn-01:~ #
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