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Generic Puppet Configuration for HPC Clusters

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Install iPXE binaries with packages #67

Open rezib opened 7 years ago

rezib commented 7 years ago

Currently, iPXE ROM binaries are downloaded as regular files using HTTP, in this manifest: https://github.com/edf-hpc/puppet-hpc/blob/master/puppet-config/modules/boottftp/manifests/install.pp#L20

As those are binary programs, it would be nicer if they were installed with packages. There would be the following benefits:

proper software versionning across clusters
the build procedure would be somehow documented and therefore reproducible
it wouldn't pollute configuration git repository with blobs

rezib commented 7 years ago

Also note, there is already an ipxe package in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ipxe

It might be a good basis for a Scibian package.