https://jira.whamcloud.com This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 9.4.14 940014 05-12-2023 https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-6379 Lustre <p>The lustre 2.7.0 release stores RPMS for RHEL6 under: <a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.7.0/el6.6" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.7.0/el6.6</a></p> <p>This path is inflexible and cannot be generalized for future RHEL 6 minor release updates (6.X), as there exist no yum variable specifying X.</p> <p>Solution: </p> <ul class="alternate" type="square"> <li>provide a symbolic link el6 -&gt; el6.6, which points to the latest release.</li> </ul> <p>After that change the lustre yum repo file can just contain for any RHEL version, e.g. for the server :<br/> ...<br/> baseurl=<a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.7.0/el$releasever/server" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.7.0/el$releasever/server</a><br/> ...</p> <p>Users who want to stay with 6.6 build of lustre will be able to use the explicit:<br/> .../latest-feature-release/el6.6</p> <p>This is the method used for handling minor releases by the official CentOS repositories: <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/</a></p> <p>A similar problem exist for <a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.7.0/el7" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.7.0/el7</a><br/> which should be a link to 7.0.1406 or whatever version of RHEL 7 lustre has been built against.</p> <p>For more information about yum variables see: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19701/yum-how-can-i-view-variables-like-releasever-basearch-yum0</p> RHEL6, RHEL7 LU-6379

Please name the RHEL repos using the $releasever yum variable

Improvement Minor Resolved Not a Bug Minh Diep Marcin Dulak Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:04:53 +0000 Sun, 5 Apr 2015 11:48:46 +0000 Sun, 5 Apr 2015 11:48:46 +0000 Lustre 2.7.0 Lustre 2.8.0 1 5 <p>Hi Marcin</p> <p>I have made the change, could you verify?</p> <p>It looks OK for me - the directory structure of <a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/</a></p> {latest-feature-release,lustre-2.7.0} <p> contains subdirectories named with el$releasever for both RHEL 6 and 7.</p> <p>Great - thanks for confirming Marcin.</p> Development Epic/Theme repo rhel yum Rank 1|hzx8rr: Rank (Obsolete) 9223372036854775807