Configure xCAT Software Repository

xCAT software and repo files can be obtained from: http://xcat.org/download.html

Internet Repository

Install xCAT-release to configure both the xcat-core and xcat-dep repositories and their signing key:

dnf install https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/yum/latest/xcat-core/xCAT-release-latest.noarch.rpm

The dependency repository is selected automatically from the operating-system release and architecture reported by DNF. The installed repository files are marked as configuration files, so package upgrades preserve local changes.

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 the xcat-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
```