+# ok, so the logic should be simple, just yum update the world
+# however there are many cases in the real life where this
+# just does not work, because of a glitch somewhere
+# so, we force the update of crucial pkgs independently, as
+# the whole group is sometimes too much to swallow
+# this one is builtin
+CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_BUILTIN=[ 'NodeUpdate' , 'nodemanager-lib', 'nodemanager-lxc', 'nodemanager-vs' ]
+# and operations can also try to push a list through a conf_file
+# should use the second one for consistency, try the first one as well for legacy
+CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_OPTIONAL_PATHS=[
+ # this is a legacy name, please avoid using this one
+ '/etc/planetlab/NodeUpdate.packages'
+ # file to use with a hand-written conf_file
+ '/etc/planetlab/crucial-rpm-list'
+ # this one could some day be maintained by a predefined config_file
+ '/etc/planetlab/sliceimage-rpm-list'
+]