Re: pkgsrc/systemconfigurator repository closing

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SystemImager 3.8.1 (stable) released

The new stable release 3.8.1 is available:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=259&package_id=278&release_id=498036

Here is the official announcement:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=681434

All 3.8.0 users are recommended to upgrade... and it's not an april
fools' day hoax! 

Best regards,
-Andrea

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Re: Integrating kexec with SystemImager (was Re: SystemConfigurator and SystemImager)

Erich Focht wrote:
>> First issue is that I have to manually create the file
>> /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf in my image, I'm not using the
>> OSCAR-way to create images (via systeminstaller), I'm just using the
>> "standard" way of using systemimager, cloning the image from a golden
>> client. But this is not a critical problem, I'm trying to write a simple
>> UYOK-based script to automatically generate the file with the
>> appropriate kernel, initrd and append string. This script will be used
>> by si_prepareclient.
>>
>> Anyway here is my systemconfig.conf file:
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> [BOOT]
>> ROOTDEV = /dev/systemvg/rootlv
>> BOOTDEV = /dev/hda
>> DEFAULTBOOT = linux
>>
>> [KERNEL0]
>> LABEL = linux
>> PATH = /boot/vmlinuz
>> INITRD = /boot/initrd
>> -----------------------------
> 
> This is fixed now in trunk. Maybe you want to check.

Thanks Erich! It seems to work very well now. I'd like to include my
UYOK-based script soon in systemimager to automagically generate the
systemconfig.conf in the image using the golden-client approach.

> 
> Can you quantify how much time longer the systemconfigurator step takes?
> I re-added zipl support such that all tests succeed now, again. Maybe that's
> also a problem.
> 

I use a virtual machine (with vmplayer) for my tests, so maybe the
latencies that I see are not so meaningful using a real hw environment.

Anyway, a typical installation using the standard BOEL kernel+initrd.img
and a ~650MB image needed 3-4min, now I need 8min, but repeating my
tests I've found that it's not a systemconfigurator issue... it's the
pci-automod overhead. I think we can work and spend some time to
optimize it, but it's not a critical problem for now, the advantages of
pci-automod respect to discover are huge, so I would consider this
overhead a minor side effect.

Thanks,
-Andrea

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modules and path fun

Currently OSCAR uses "modules" to set up environment stuff for users
automagically.  If I wanted to add a new module, where do I put it?  I
just want to add a directory to the path at the moment, but I might
need to do additional things as well, so I thought I would use the big
hammer from the start, just for fun.

My google-fu is failing me...

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Re: modules and path fun

hi Michael

> Currently OSCAR uses "modules" to set up environment stuff for users
> automagically.  If I wanted to add a new module, where do I put it?  I
> just want to add a directory to the path at the moment, but I might
> need to do additional things as well, so I thought I would use the big
> hammer from the start, just for fun.
We used the modules distributed with oscar 4.2 to "modulise" a bunch
of applications we have which are entirely external to OSCAR. I did it
this way :
1)  make a directory under /opt/modules called "modulefiles
2) make a directory for each package you want modules to know about
3) write a module file for each version of the package in the subdirectory

There is a step missing - I can't remember where the path to
modulefiles was set, but I seem to remember that I found out at the
modules documentation page at sourceforge...

Hope that helps,
Ciao,
Bruce

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Re: modules and path fun

Sounds like something that should be added to the Wiki -- Mike, you
want to co-ordinate this with Bruce?

BTW, welcome back (?) Bruce 

Cheers,

Bernard

On 4/2/07, Bruce Becker <bruce.becker@...> wrote:
> hi Michael
>
> > Currently OSCAR uses "modules" to set up environment stuff for users
> > automagically.  If I wanted to add a new module, where do I put it?  I
> > just want to add a directory to the path at the moment, but I might
> > need to do additional things as well, so I thought I would use the big
> > hammer from the start, just for fun.
> We used the modules distributed with oscar 4.2 to "modulise" a bunch
> of applications we have which are entirely external to OSCAR. I did it
> this way :
> 1)  make a directory under /opt/modules called "modulefiles
> 2) make a directory for each package you want modules to know about
> 3) write a module file for each version of the package in the subdirectory
>
> There is a step missing - I can't remember where the path to
> modulefiles was set, but I seem to remember that I found out at the
> modules documentation page at sourceforge...
>
> Hope that helps,
> Ciao,
> Bruce
>
> --
> Bruce Becker
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> Cittadella Universitaria
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job-monarch package status

One of the packages made as part of GSoC last year was a job-monarch
package, which Bernard managed to find in the svn repo
(http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/svn/oscar-soc/) but I wasn't
sure if this was built for 4.2 or 5.0 or if it even mattered.  There
are some files which seem to indicate it was built for fc5 only?  Will
the package rebuild script Erich has referenced a few times work with
this?

I am trying to spin myself up on OSCAR's packaging system, and I also
have someone who is interested in having some web based job queue
displays and Bernard thought this would probably be a good place to
start.

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Re: job-monarch package status

Of course if you use Sun Grid Engine, you can use job-monarch AND
xml-qstat, which is just lovely 

Cheers,

Bernard

On 4/2/07, Michael Edwards <miedward@...> wrote:
> One of the packages made as part of GSoC last year was a job-monarch
> package, which Bernard managed to find in the svn repo
> (http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/svn/oscar-soc/) but I wasn't
> sure if this was built for 4.2 or 5.0 or if it even mattered.  There
> are some files which seem to indicate it was built for fc5 only?  Will
> the package rebuild script Erich has referenced a few times work with
> this?
>
> I am trying to spin myself up on OSCAR's packaging system, and I also
> have someone who is interested in having some web based job queue
> displays and Bernard thought this would probably be a good place to
> start.
>
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Re: modules and path fun

Which wiki? we have at least 2...

Anyway, in the case of oscar apparently you just have to make a new
subdirectory of /opt/modules/oscar-modules (I copied the sge one since
it was fairly simple).  OSCAR already makes the
/opt/modules/modulefiles stuff for you.  It also loads all its modules
properly, and unloads them whenever that makes sense as well.

On 4/2/07, Bernard Li <bernard@...> wrote:
> Sounds like something that should be added to the Wiki -- Mike, you
> want to co-ordinate this with Bruce?
>
> BTW, welcome back (?) Bruce 
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
> On 4/2/07, Bruce Becker <bruce.becker@...> wrote:
> > hi Michael
> >
> > > Currently OSCAR uses "modules" to set up environment stuff for users
> > > automagically.  If I wanted to add a new module, where do I put it?  I
> > > just want to add a directory to the path at the moment, but I might
> > > need to do additional things as well, so I thought I would use the big
> > > hammer from the start, just for fun.
> > We used the modules distributed with oscar 4.2 to "modulise" a bunch
> > of applications we have which are entirely external to OSCAR. I did it
> > this way :
> > 1)  make a directory under /opt/modules called "modulefiles
> > 2) make a directory for each package you want modules to know about
> > 3) write a module file for each version of the package in the subdirectory
> >
> > There is a step missing - I can't remember where the path to
> > modulefiles was set, but I seem to remember that I found out at the
> > modules documentation page at sourceforge...
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Ciao,
> > Bruce
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Becker
> > I.N.F.N. Sezione di Cagliari
> > Cittadella Universitaria
> > 09042 Monserrato (CA) , ITALIA
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Re: modules and path fun

You're the DocMaster, you tell us which to use 

Either the user-contributed one or dev wiki...

Cheers,

Bernard

On 4/2/07, Michael Edwards <miedward@...> wrote:
> Which wiki? we have at least 2...
>
> Anyway, in the case of oscar apparently you just have to make a new
> subdirectory of /opt/modules/oscar-modules (I copied the sge one since
> it was fairly simple).  OSCAR already makes the
> /opt/modules/modulefiles stuff for you.  It also loads all its modules
> properly, and unloads them whenever that makes sense as well.
>
> On 4/2/07, Bernard Li <bernard@...> wrote:
> > Sounds like something that should be added to the Wiki -- Mike, you
> > want to co-ordinate this with Bruce?
> >
> > BTW, welcome back (?) Bruce 
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bernard
> >
> > On 4/2/07, Bruce Becker <bruce.becker@...> wrote:
> > > hi Michael
> > >
> > > > Currently OSCAR uses "modules" to set up environment stuff for users
> > > > automagically.  If I wanted to add a new module, where do I put it?  I
> > > > just want to add a directory to the path at the moment, but I might
> > > > need to do additional things as well, so I thought I would use the big
> > > > hammer from the start, just for fun.
> > > We used the modules distributed with oscar 4.2 to "modulise" a bunch
> > > of applications we have which are entirely external to OSCAR. I did it
> > > this way :
> > > 1)  make a directory under /opt/modules called "modulefiles
> > > 2) make a directory for each package you want modules to know about
> > > 3) write a module file for each version of the package in the subdirectory
> > >
> > > There is a step missing - I can't remember where the path to
> > > modulefiles was set, but I seem to remember that I found out at the
> > > modules documentation page at sourceforge...
> > >
> > > Hope that helps,
> > > Ciao,
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bruce Becker
> > > I.N.F.N. Sezione di Cagliari
> > > Cittadella Universitaria
> > > 09042 Monserrato (CA) , ITALIA
> > > +39 070 675 4982 (w) | +39 347 317 9367 (m)
> > > AIM/GTalk/Skype/MSN/Jabber : brucellino
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