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Prepare the Compute Nodes for Yum Updates
G.2 Prepare the Compute Nodes for Yum Updates
On a host outside the Exalogic machine, set up a local yum repository as
1.
described in the "Server Setup" section of the following document:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-
admin/yum-repo-setup-1659167.html
While doing this, select only the ol5_x86_64_latest channel.
On each compute node on the Exalogic machine, do the following:
2.
a.
b.
c.
G.3 Install, Update, and Remove RPMs Using Yum
Ensure that the compute node on which you want to perform yum updates has
1.
been prepared, as described in
Install, update, or remove RPMs as follows:
2.
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G-2 Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine Owner's Guide
Log in as the root user.
Set up the compute node as a yum client of the repository you set up in step 1,
by performing the steps in the "Client Setup" section of the following
document:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-
storage-admin/yum-repo-setup-1659167.html
To ensure that essential RPMs are not modified during yum updates, append
the following exclude directive, to the /etc/yum.conf file.
Note:
The entire directive must be on one line.
exclude=kernel* compat-dapl* dapl* ib-bonding* ibacm* ibutils* ibsim*
infiniband-diags* libibcm* libibmad* libibumad* libibverbs* libmlx4*
librdmacm* libsdp* mpi-selector* mpitests_openmpi_gcc* mstflint* mvapich*
ofa* ofed* openmpi_gcc* opensm* perftest* qperf* rds-tools* sdpnetstat*
srptools* exalogic* infinibus*
This exclusion list includes all of the RPMs listed in
Modified or
Removed.
To install an RPM from the yum repository, run the following command:
# yum install rpm_name
To update a specific RPM, run the following command:
# yum update rpm_name
To update all the RPMs, run the following command:
# yum update
To remove an RPM, run the following command:
Prepare the Compute Nodes for Yum
RPMs That Must Not Be
Updates.
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