Oracle Linux installation media configuration

mansonik · December 20, 2020, 7:05pm

Hi,

Hi, Could someone provide installation media and operating system configuration for Oracle Linux 8? I’m searching for a while now how to setup repos for OL8 but i don’t have any clue yet how to achive that.

Best regards,

Thulium-Drake · December 20, 2020, 8:30pm

I can’t speak for OL8, but for CentOS I did the following:

Install a VM using the ISO
Check all the default enabled repo’s
Add those repo’s to Foreman
Publish & you’re good to go.

I noticed you can probably remove the ‘Extras’ Repo, as it only contains packaged with extra repo definitions and their GPG keys (which should be managed by Foreman)

lzap · January 5, 2021, 3:43pm

I think we could preseed OEL repositories too.

Feel free to file a PR:

github.com

theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/db/seeds.d/100-installation_media.rb

organizations = Organization.unscoped.all
locations = Location.unscoped.all
os_suse = Operatingsystem.unscoped.where(:type => "Suse") || Operatingsystem.unscoped.where("name LIKE ?", "suse")

# Installation media: default mirrors
Medium.without_auditing do
  [
    { :name => "CentOS 7 mirror",      :os_family => "Redhat",  :path => "http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$major/os/$arch" },
    { :name => "CentOS 8 mirror",      :os_family => "Redhat",  :path => "http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$major/BaseOS/$arch/kickstart" },
    { :name => "Debian mirror",        :os_family => "Debian",  :path => "http://ftp.debian.org/debian" },
    { :name => "Fedora mirror",        :os_family => "Redhat",  :path => "http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$major/Server/$arch/os/" },
    { :name => "Fedora Atomic mirror", :os_family => "Redhat",  :path => "http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/atomic/stable/Cloud_Atomic/$arch/os/" },
    { :name => "FreeBSD mirror",       :os_family => "Freebsd", :path => "http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/$arch/$version-RELEASE/" },
    { :name => "OpenSUSE mirror",      :os_family => "Suse",    :path => "http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/$version/repo/oss", :operatingsystems => os_suse },
    { :name => "Ubuntu mirror",        :os_family => "Debian",  :path => "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" },
    { :name => "CoreOS mirror",        :os_family => "Coreos",  :path => "http://$release.release.core-os.net" },
    { :name => "Flatcar mirror",       :os_family => "Coreos",  :path => "http://$release.release.flatcar-linux.net" },
    { :name => "RancherOS mirror", :os_family => "Rancheros", :path => "https://github.com/rancher/os/releases/download/v$version" },
  ].each do |input|
    next if Medium.unscoped.where(['name = ? OR path = ?', input[:name], input[:path]]).any?

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maximilian · January 20, 2021, 7:51am

We have a new Oracle Linux 8 Guide. Hope this helps.

Bernhard_Suttner · January 20, 2021, 12:23pm

This requires

for pulp2: add nectar uln downloader by hlawatschek · Pull Request #1799 · pulp/pulp_rpm · GitHub and add ulnthreaded downloader for oracle uln repos by hlawatschek · Pull Request #71 · pulp/nectar · GitHub and / or
for pulp3: Add support for synchronizing oracle repos using ULN by ThikaXer · Pull Request #1896 · pulp/pulp_rpm · GitHub

and a change in katello:

diff --git a/app/helpers/katello/katello_url_helper.rb b/app/helpers/katello/katello_url_helper.rb
index 26c9ea301..e8ebc1829 100644
--- a/app/helpers/katello/katello_url_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/katello/katello_url_helper.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module Katello
   module KatelloUrlHelper
     unless defined? CONSTANTS_DEFINED
       FILEPREFIX = ['file'].freeze
-      PROTOCOLS = ['http', 'https', 'ftp'].freeze
+      PROTOCOLS = ['http', 'https', 'ftp', 'uln'].freeze
 
       CONSTANTS_DEFINED = true
     end