XCP updates should be available via the following:
# yum --enablerepo xcp --nogpgcheck update
The following file should be on your system, if it is not please create it
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/
CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo xcp.repo
CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Vault.repo
[root@xs-03 ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/xcp.repo
[xcp]
name=XCP 1.6 Updates
baseurl=http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/repo/xcp-1.6.10/
enabled=0
There’s currently one patch in that rep at the moment. Generally speaking I would say not to patch XCP from the XenServer release except in cases of critical security issues… which should (hopefully) be in this
repo in the future. From what I understand, they’re trying to get better about it.
If it were XCP1.1, I would say you’re OK installing patches from 5.6 series, and there are instructions on how to decrypt and apply the patch manually through rpm. This process is as follows:
1.
Download the zip
2.
Unzip it
3.
Unencrypt and verify it:
# gpg –nomedir /opt/xensource/gpg/ --no-default-keyring –keyring /opt/xensource/gpg/pubring.gpg –decrypt XS56XXXXXXXX.xsupdate | dd s=4k skip=1 | tar xv
4.
The result will be a bunch of files, and the fix’s RPM file
5.
Upgrade using rpm:
# rpm –U <rpm file>
It should be noted that these instructions are dated, and are not recommended for 1.6.x. I highly recommend sticking to the XCP repo update path.
- Brian Menges
Principal Engineer, DevOps
GoGrid | ServePath | ColoServe | UpStream Networks
From: xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Edwards, Nick, Vodafone Group
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 04:56
To: xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-API] Xenserver 6.1 hotfixes for XCP 1.6
Hi,
I am running XCP 1.6.10 (61809c) and I have been looking at installing hotfixes as there do not appear to many if any that are available for XCP 1.6.
I have been looking into this and as some of you I’m sure have already discovered it is not possible to install Xenserver 6.1 hotfixes on XCP. I was receiving the following from the cli when trying to apply an uploaded
fix:
[root@xen2 ~]# xe -s localhost -u root -pw password patch-pool-apply uuid=89699bc9-fb15-49e9-9d7b-05e0eb49114d
The uploaded patch file is invalid. See attached log for more details.
log: Could not find element %s
It turns out the problem was caused by the wrong server version:
[root@xen2 ~]# gpg --homedir /opt/xensource/gpg/ --no-default-keyring --keyring /opt/xensource/gpg/pubring.gpg --output hotfix.unsigned --decrypt <XSUPDATE.the_filename>
[root@xen2 ~]# sh hotfix.unsigned precheck
<error errorcode="PATCH_PRECHECK_FAILED_WRONG_SERVER_VERSION">
<found></found>
<required>^6\.1\.0$</required>
</error>
Makes sense of course as this is XCP. I then added the following line to /etc/xensource-inventory:
PRODUCT_VERSION='6.1.0'
After adding this I am able to get the hotfixes to install no problem.
This is all good, however I would like to know whether this is a good idea or not? If it will cause problems elsewhere and also if the Xenserver 6.1 updates could also cause certain incompatibilities etc? As I understand
things the builds are very similar and coming from the same source tree (I might be wrong here).
Advice and thoughts gratefully received!
Thanks,
Nick
