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Testing OSCAR Trunk

On Debian Based Systems

Preliminary Notes

It seems that the Debian packages for SystemImager have issues during the installation on a fresh system: the installation of _systemimager–initrd-template-_ packages tend to fail during the OSCAR bootstrapping. In such a case, just install manually the package, forcing the installation. Then you should be able to run successfully "oscar-config --bootstrap".

If you face the problem, please send the error message on oscar-devel, so we can check that the problem is the same on all systems (then we will try to find a fix).

Howto Test Trunk on Debian Based Systems

1. As root, add the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list:
   • On x86_64 systems: deb http://bear.csm.ornl.gov/repos/debian-4-x86_64/ etch /
   • On x86 systems: deb http://bear.csm.ornl.gov/repos/debian-4-i386/ etch /
2. Execute as root aptitude update
3. Make sure that your system is up-to-date
4. Check-out OSCAR trunk
5. Execute as root make install
6. Execute as root oscar-config –bootstrap
7. Execute as root system-sanity and make sure you address all the reported issues
8. Execute as root oscar-wizard install

On RPM Based Systems

1. As root, add the following file into your /etc/yum.conf.d directory:
   • On x86_64 systems: [http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/attachment/wiki/repoTesting/CentOS-i386-OSCAR.repo]
   • On x86 systems: [http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/attachment/wiki/repoTesting/CentOS-x86_64-OSCAR.repo]
2. Make sure that your system is up-to-date, executing as root yum update
3. Check-out OSCAR trunk
4. Execute as root make install
5. Execute as root oscar-config –bootstrap
6. Execute as root system-sanity and make sure you address all the reported issues
7. Execute as root oscar-wizard install