[Beowulf] centos5 as cluster os

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 at 11:07am, Joe Landman wrote

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> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
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>>> Yum is good, so is apt.  I still have a problem with yum wanting to 
>>> install i386 binaries as well as the x86_64 ones.  Haven't learned how to 
>>> stop that yet (probably simple too).
>> 
>> It is:
>> yum install gsl.x86_64
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> I meant automatically picking up updates, or on new installations.  I thought 
> I saw something about arch-only settings.

You can also specify architecture of specific packages in the kickstart 
file.  However, yes, it's pretty impossible to kickstart a system without 
getting some 32bit packages.  What I do here is just put a
"yum -y remove \*.i[36]86 in the %post section of the kickstart.  Voila 
-- no more 32bit packages.  And if there are no 32bit packages installed, 
it "shouldn't" pull any in at update time.

There may well be a yum plugin floating about to enforce this more 
strictly, but I haven't looked, to be honest...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF