openSUSE Leap 15.3 Support

[abhishek-sa1]

Is it possible for xCAT to support openSUSE leap provisioning or any plan to support in future?

[gurevichmark]

@abhishek-sa1 Currently xCAT does not support openSUSE Leap and there are no plans to do that in the near future. Do you have a specific reason for using openSUSE Leap 15.3 instead of currently supported SLES 15.3?

If you are willing to add the code to support Leap, your contribution to the project would be greatly appreciated.

Initial change to support leap would be to get copycds working. Most likely files xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/copycds.pm and/or xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/sles.pm. There, the .iso file gets mounted and <mount point>/media.1/media file is examined. On SLES, that file contains:

SUSE - SLE-15-SP3-Full-x86_64-Build187.1-Media
SLE-15-SP3-Full-x86_64-Build187.1

On Leap, that file contains:

openSUSE - openSUSE-Leap-15.3-3-DVD-x86_64-Build38.1-Media
openSUSE-Leap-15.3-3-DVD-x86_64-Build38.1

[jjohnson42]

As an fyi, confulent does support leap 15.3