GITTAG may not work well when we are tracking the latest commit and the import date does not match a specific tag that we care about

[whowutwut]

This {{GITTAG}} may not be work well in a real environment when we are tracking master branch.

So this works when you have tagged a specific release, but when we are tracking master, it will keep changing on a specific commit ID depending on whether the source control has been updated, and a generic import has been done across all the osimages.

[root@boston36 xcat_clusters]# lsdef -t osimage demo.xcat.redhat-alt.full.netboot
Object name: demo.xcat.redhat-alt.full.netboot
    environvar=GITBRANCH=master,OBJNAME=demo.xcat.redhat-alt.full.netboot,GITCOMMIT=36366a9,GITROOT=/install/xcat_clusters
    imagetype=linux
    osarch=ppc64le
    osdistroname=rhels7.5-alternate-ppc64le
    osname=Linux
    osvers=rhels7.5-alternate
    otherpkgdir=/install/REPO/software
    otherpkglist=/install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/common/otherpkglist/cuda.otherpkglist
    permission=755
    pkgdir=/install/REPO/os/rhels/rhels7.5-alt-ga/ppc64le,/install/REPO/software/nvidia/cuda-dep/repo/ppc64le/
    pkglist=/install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/common/pkglist/all.pkglist,/install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/common/pkglist/cuda.pkglist,/install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/common/pkglist/ib.pkglist
    postinstall=/install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/common/postinstall/compute.postinstall
    postscripts=ospkgs,custom.ps/checknode
    profile=compute
    provmethod=netboot
    rootimgdir=/install/custom/demo.xcat.redhat-alt.full.netboot/36366a9
[root@boston36 xcat_clusters]# ls /install/custom/demo.xcat.redhat-alt.full.netboot/
30f9129  4f99618  65259ab  c95ac57  ce78684

And when we try and rinstall we will get this problem:

[root@boston36 xcat_clusters]# rinstall mid21tor24cn04 osimage=demo.xcat.redhat-alt.full.netboot
Provision node(s): mid21tor24cn04
mid21tor24cn04: Did you run "genimage" before running "packimage"? kernel cannot be found at /install/custom/demo.xcat.redhat-alt.full.netboot/36366a9/kernel on boston36
Failed to generate petitboot configurations for some node(s) on boston36. Check xCAT log file for more details.
[root@boston36 xcat_clusters]#

So in this case, the ideal solution is that we would have a latest that doesn't care the git commit tag and it's the "working directory" as we are used to in xCAT to just be able to run genimage/packimage...

This may need more though on the use case..

[immarvin]

HI @whowutwut , why not run genimage/packimage against the osimage with commit number 36366a9?