Configure xCAT Software Repository¶
xCAT software and repo files can be obtained from: http://xcat.org/download.html
Internet Repository¶
[xcat-core]
For the xCAT version you want to install, download the xcat-core.repo
file and copy it to /etc/yum.repos.d
[xcat-dep]
From the xCAT-dep Online Repository, navigate to the correct subdirectory for the target machine and download the xcat-dep.repo
file and copy it to /etc/yum.repos.d
.
Continue to the next section to install xCAT.
Local Repository¶
[xcat-core]
Download
xcat-core
:# downloading the latest stable build, xcat-core-<version>-linux.tar.bz2 mkdir -p ~/xcat cd ~/xcat/ wget http://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-core/<version>.x_Linux/xcat-core/xcat-core-<version>-linux.tar.bz2
Extract
xcat-core
:tar xcat-core-<version>-linux.tar.bz2
Configure the local repository for xcat-core by running
mklocalrepo.sh
script in thexcat-core
directory:cd ~/xcat/xcat-core ./mklocalrepo.sh
[xcat-dep]
Unless you are downloading xcat-dep
to match a specific version of xCAT, it’s recommended to download the latest version of xcat-dep
.
Download
xcat-dep
:# downloading the latest stable version, xcat-dep-<version>-linux.tar.bz2 mkdir -p ~/xcat/ cd ~/xcat wget http://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/xcat-dep-<version>-linux.tar.bz2
Extract
xcat-dep
:tar jxvf xcat-dep-<version>-linux.tar.bz2
Configure the local repository for xcat-dep by switching to the architecture and os subdirectory of the node you are installing on, then run the
mklocalrepo.sh
script:cd ~/xcat/xcat-dep/ # On redhat 7.1 ppc64le: cd rh7/ppc64le cd <os>/<arch> ./mklocalrepo.sh