Xen project Mailing List

Re: [Xen-users] Yum repo for XCP (ex: XCP acpi shutdown)

From: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:45:31 +0400

Delivery-date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:47:06 -0700

List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>

NEVER upgrade XCP by CentOS packages.

You will break it beyond repair level. Reason is simple: XCP shipped with patched packages, and replacing them with non-patched will cause grave damage. And worst is damage is not instant - you will continue to operate, but found 'something got wrong' later.

The most important is lvm2 package, which is patched to allow shared storage usage (--master option). Default LVM2 will trash metadata on LVM SR (LVM and LVMoISCSI SM) at some moment.

Other (i'm not sure) is udev package, and may be few more.

On 25.10.2011 01:32, József Dániel wrote:

Hello,

This did work after deleting the Citrix repo, but now it wants to upgrade more than 100 packages, which does not necessarily sound like a good idea.

Should I just go ahead as it's just security updates, or would it throw my installation into chaos? I am very unfamiliar with CentOS versioning policy. Is it something like Debian (good) or something like Gentoo (bad)? :D

If it's bad, how can I freeze the system version to a known safe point, while being able to install packages?

D

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Joseph Hom <jhom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is CentOS. The yum cent repos are configured just not enabled.

yum --enablerepo=base install acpid smartd should work.
________________________________________
From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of József Dániel [daniel.jozsef@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:03 AM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] Yum repo for XCP (ex: XCP acpi shutdown)

Okay, I figured out that dom0 is actually some sort of CentOS, and it
has Yum. The only question remaining is where I can find compatible
packages to install for XCP 1.0.

I'd be interested in stuff like acpid, smartd...

Daniel

2011/9/16 József Dániel <daniel.jozsef@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering what is the easiest way to get my XCP box to honor
> ACPI shutdowns. It's a SOHO server, so time to time it'd be super
> handy to just push the power button, and have the system shut down
> cleanly.
> (BTW I wonder what XCP does to VMs on shutdown by default... Sends
> them an ACPI shutdown signal, or just powers them off?)
>
> Is there some sort of package management to install acpid? Or is there
> a config setting somewhere to do the above?
>
> Daniel
>

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users