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Installing the RC on Fedora

At Planetlab, the nodes currently run Fedora 8. We are supplying RPM packages for OMF 5.3 on Fedora 8 (i386) and Fedora 14 (32 and 64bit) through our yum repository. To enable it and install the OMF RC on a node, please see the following steps.

  • run su
  • edit /etc/yum.repos.d/omf.repo and add the lines:
[OMF]
name=OMF
baseurl=http://pkg.mytestbed.net/rpm/5.3/f8/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
  • run yum check-update
  • run yum install omf-resctl-5.3

For FC14 replace the "f8" in the baseurl with "f14".

Building the RPM packages

Run the build_rpms.sh script in the OMF trunk directory. Do this on a machine that is configured for Debian package building and also has the rpmbuild and alien tools installed. In other words, use norbit :) The script builds Debian packages, converts them to rpm, patches a few things and uploads them to mytestbed.net.