Installing updates: OS, CAs, Quattor, VL-e

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Installing OS updates comprises the following steps:

Synchronization of the local mirror

As user ndpfmgr at Quattor server stal, execute the script 

mirror-centos

This will synchronize the local OS mirror at host stal with the OS mirror at spiegel.

At the moment, the following distributions are mirrored:

  • CentOS 3.9 i386
  • CentOS 4.7 i386
  • CentOS 4.7 x86_64
  • CentOS 5.2 i386
  • CentOS 5.2 x86_64

Generation of the OS update template for Quattor

At host stal using your personal account, run rpmUpdates.pl to generate an update template from the available OS updates: 

$L/../bin/rpmUpdates.pl /project/mirror/centos/4.7/updates/i386/RPMS/ > /tmp/updates-centos47_i386.tpl

The generated template will contain only the last version of each package found in the update repository, except for the kernel packages, for which all versions are added. By convention, we want Quattor only to keep the installation of the currently running kernel and the desired new kernel version. The other modules should thus be removed by hand.

While editing the generated file, ensure that the template name is rpms/updates. Finally copy the edited file to $L/cfg/os/<distribution>/rpms/updates.tpl

Compilation and Deployment

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