Golden Client on Rocky Linux error

[albenstein]

I want to create golden client (rocky linux 9) with systemimager-server / systemimager-client program with xcat 2.17.0 on rocky linux 8. I installed systemimager-server 4.3.0-0.3 and systemimager-client 4.3.0-0.1.
When I run:
imgcapture headnode01 -t sysclone -o golden.image.headnode
I got this error:
Checking if systemimager packages are installed on xcat.
Checking if systemimager packages are installed on headnode01.
Preparing osimage golden.image.headnode on headnode01.
Error: [xcat]: export PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/;LANG=C si_prepareclient --server xcat --no-uyok --yes failed on the headnode01.
Error: [xcat]: Can not prepare Golden Client on headnode01.
Can you help me with this issue?

[Obihoernchen]

Hi, I'm sorry this functionality wasn't tested since RHEL 7.0. It might be broken.
Usually you want to build a reproducible image in xCAT with kickstart templates, pkglists, syncfiles and postscripts instead.

[albenstein]

If you updating packages, you could look into these too:

1. When systemimager-server installation on headnode process, it gives error about python package missing. It's solution is Use xCat for server provisioning on bare-metal server #7377 (comment)
2. There is no repodata for system* rpms. Solution is creating local repo with createrepo command.
3. When systemimager-client, perl-AppConfig, systemimager-common installation on compute node, it gives gpg key error. It's solution is rpm --delsign command.

[Obihoernchen]

I'm sorry but we don't have the time to work on a deprecated feature which isn't used a lot.
I'm happy to merge PRs to fix it though, but we won't be able to implement necessary fixes on our own sorry :(