OEL 6 hardcoded yum repo

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Hello Everyone,

I've been attempting to kickstart an OEL 6 server off my Katello environment and kept getting an error about failing to add a UEK4 repository. Since there is no such repository definition in my provisioning templates / kickstart this was very perplexing to me. After banging my head against the wall for a bit I finally mounted the OEL 6 "install.img" and did a grep for UEK4. This is the awesomeness I found:

$ cd /path/to/mounted/install.img
$ grep -r UEK4 *
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = True
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: # If we are upgrading we need to check for pre-UEK4 kernel
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: # if found we do not want to enable the UEK4 repo unless it is also installed
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: foundUEK4 = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info("Found UEK4 modules directory %s" %(dirname))
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: foundUEK4 = True
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info("Found UEK1 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo")
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info("Found UEK2 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo")
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info("Found UEK3 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo")
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if enableUEK4repo:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: self.addUEKRepo(extraRepos, "UEK4")

I've not found a way to disable this via any sort of boot options or the like and am currently headed down the path of creating a new, custom version of their install.img. If anyone has any brilliant ideas I would love to hear them. I even checked their non-UEK boot media and it had the same code. Hopefully, at the least, some other poor slave forced to use OEL will benefit from my discovery.

Regards,

j

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Hey,
the current community templates should work for oracle linux (https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates). I'm not sure about the uek4 repository but the way to get rid of the mysql repository during kickstart is in this commit: https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates/commit/9ec2d99f1de16e4f0640883aeb18a29a2015853e
maybe something simmilar to this will also work for the uek repo. also note that there is a disable-uek parameter now: https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates/commit/4d62c9bf7f4af989e9f115fa76f8cf7839a62de8

Greetings
Klaas

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Hello Everyone,

I’ve been attempting to kickstart an OEL 6 server off my Katello environment and kept getting an error about failing to add a UEK4 repository. Since there is no such repository definition in my provisioning templates / kickstart this was very perplexing to me. After banging my head against the wall for a bit I finally mounted the OEL 6 “install.img” and did a grep for UEK4. This is the awesomeness I found:

$ cd /path/to/mounted/install.img
$ grep -r UEK4 *
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = True
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: # If we are upgrading we need to check for pre-UEK4 kernel
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: # if found we do not want to enable the UEK4 repo unless it is also installed
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: foundUEK4 = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info(“Found UEK4 modules directory %s” %(dirname))
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: foundUEK4 = True
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info(“Found UEK1 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo”)
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info(“Found UEK2 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo”)
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info(“Found UEK3 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo”)
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if enableUEK4repo:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: self.addUEKRepo(extraRepos, “UEK4”)

I’ve not found a way to disable this via any sort of boot options or the like and am currently headed down the path of creating a new, custom version of their install.img. If anyone has any brilliant ideas I would love to hear them. I even checked their non-UEK boot media and it had the same code. Hopefully, at the least, some other poor slave forced to use OEL will benefit from my discovery.

Regards,

j

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Thanks for the info, Klaas! I wonder if defining an empty UEK4 repo in the kickstart would work (like the old MySQL workaround you linked me to). I'll have to give that a try.

j

··· ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaas Demter" To: foreman-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 1:59:45 AM Subject: Re: [foreman-users] OEL 6 hardcoded yum repo

Hey,
the current community templates should work for oracle linux (https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates). I’m not sure about the uek4 repository but the way to get rid of the mysql repository during kickstart is in this commit: https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates/commit/9ec2d99f1de16e4f0640883aeb18a29a2015853e
maybe something simmilar to this will also work for the uek repo. also note that there is a disable-uek parameter now: https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates/commit/4d62c9bf7f4af989e9f115fa76f8cf7839a62de8

Greetings
Klaas

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
Von: “‘Jason B. Nance’ via Foreman users” foreman-users@googlegroups.com
An: foreman-users@googlegroups.com
Gesendet: Montag, 14. November 2016 22:25:12
Betreff: [foreman-users] OEL 6 hardcoded yum repo

Hello Everyone,

I’ve been attempting to kickstart an OEL 6 server off my Katello environment and kept getting an error about failing to add a UEK4 repository. Since there is no such repository definition in my provisioning templates / kickstart this was very perplexing to me. After banging my head against the wall for a bit I finally mounted the OEL 6 “install.img” and did a grep for UEK4. This is the awesomeness I found:

$ cd /path/to/mounted/install.img
$ grep -r UEK4 *
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = True
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: # If we are upgrading we need to check for pre-UEK4 kernel
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: # if found we do not want to enable the UEK4 repo unless it is also installed
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: foundUEK4 = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info(“Found UEK4 modules directory %s” %(dirname))
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: foundUEK4 = True
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info(“Found UEK1 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo”)
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info(“Found UEK2 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo”)
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if not foundUEK4:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: log.info(“Found UEK3 kernel and no UEK4 kernel, disabling UEK4 repo”)
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: enableUEK4repo = False
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: if enableUEK4repo:
usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py: self.addUEKRepo(extraRepos, “UEK4”)

I’ve not found a way to disable this via any sort of boot options or the like and am currently headed down the path of creating a new, custom version of their install.img. If anyone has any brilliant ideas I would love to hear them. I even checked their non-UEK boot media and it had the same code. Hopefully, at the least, some other poor slave forced to use OEL will benefit from my discovery.

Regards,

j

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