mopsfelder / versions

OpenPOWER Host OS component versions repository

OpenPOWER Host OS packages metadata

This repository contains metadata to build the projects at the open-power-host-os namespace. It also contains additional data necessary to create the software packages.

The builds project uses this repository automatically by cloning it and doing a git checkout in the tag referred in its configuration file.

As new features are introduced in the projects at open-power-host-os new tags will be added here to establish a valid and tested set of software versions to build.

The list of the latest packages and their versions is present at: https://open-power-host-os.github.io/latest

Supported GNU/Linux distributions

• CentOS 7.4 PPC64LE

Additional information

For convenience, this repository also provides a release package and packages groups:

Release package

The release package (open-power-host-os-release) takes care of system-wide configurations. It places a file at /etc/open-power-host-os-release indicating the current OpenPOWER Host OS version. It also prepares the POWER system for KVM virtualization, by disabling simultaneous multi-threading and creating necessary systemd preset files.

Package groups

A set of related packages is grouped into a "metapackage". They should be installed like normal packages (not using the prefix @ in yum). The list of metapackages is the following:

• open-power-host-os-all

• open-power-host-os-base

• open-power-host-os-container

• open-power-host-os-ras

• open-power-host-os-virt

To see a complete list of which packages are installed by each group, refer to open-power-host-os/CentOS/7/open-power-host-os.spec file in this repository.