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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
Component - Product functionality
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
Component - Technical Foundation
Even if this is closed: mmbuildgpl can also build rpms. So while testing the new RHEL patches (you do testing, right?) you could build the approprriate rpms and provide them for prod.
This is a very attractive concept, especially now that we have acquired Red Hat. This request has been raised internally within IBM. If implemented it will be at the IBM corporate level, not just for Spectrum Scale, enhancing all of Passport Advantage and Fix Central. For this reason, I am closing this specific Scale request as the Scale team will not be the team that implements it.
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We have 15,000 servers that get patched each week on a rolling cycle of 4 (Dev,UAT,PROD/BCP). assume there are no compilers in the process is completely automated with "yum update". Doing an install of Red Hat, logging on as root and doing mmbuildgpl, creating an RPM file, and then propagating on the night of the deployment, and before the reboot after a new kernel ... when we're worrying about 15,000 servers.... is not a sustainable process and is certainly an risk of making a fault.
A subtle reason for asking for the repo is it would ensure that IBM tested the GPFS before the new kernel arrived. In one instance, I was forced to upgrade a vrm level to get the necessary support, and that is also not an acceptable approach to a continuous operations model.
But, I'd certainly like to discuss WHY the customer should be anxiously looking forward to this churn and work... Paul
the primary way this will get fixed will be having IBM provide a vendor REPO with packages, based on kernel revisions.
Julia (from MIT) is up to about third in languages (after Python and R). Even MIT figured out how to integrate with RHEL updates, now supporting their own REPO for RHEL...
copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org documentation at https://julialang.org/downloads/platform.html