xCAT Metapackage without automatic configuration

[viniciusferrao]

Hello, as discussed on the xCAT mailing list, specifically on this thread: https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/mailman/message/36784777/

It would be nice to have an xCAT package that does not do a lot of things during the yum phase. Those modifications aren't documented so a reverse engineer process was made to map everything that "yum install xCAT" does.

In various cases the default settings aren't good enough and a new package without this automatic install would be extremely welcoming, since we don't need to rollback the changes made by the default package.

[cxhong]

do u suggestion any command to use without automatic configuration?

[viniciusferrao]

Hello @cxhong I'm not sure if I understood the question correctly, but you're asking the name of the package?

If yes I can suggest the following: xCAT-packageonly xCAT-configless xCAT-manual xCAT-minimal (I don't know if this one makes sense) xCAT-base (Neither this one)

The idea here, as explained is to enable custom xCAT installations. In my case we are always rolling back some of the changes made by xCAT package, so we enable back:

• Firewall
• SELinux
• Delete the RSA generated keys and use other keys.

We didn't messed with other automatic settings, but we probably will. The automatic settings are made by the xcatconfig -i command that's run during the xCAT package install.

Thanks.