[ovirt-users] Re: dnf update fails with oVirt 4.4 on centos 8 stream due to ansible package conflicts.

Just for the record, I fixed this with: # rpm -e ansible --nodeps # dnf install ansible Now dnf update works as expected without errors or removing any packages. I haven't encounted this issue on my hosts because they are running Rocky, not Stream. On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Sketch wrote: > Just a warning, adding --allowerasing on my engine causes > ovirt-engine and a bunch of other ovirt-* packages to be removed.  So > make sure you check the yum output carefully before running the command. > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Jillian Morgan wrote: > >>  I had to add --allowerasing to my dnf update command to get it to go >>  through >>  (which it did, cleanly removing the old ansible package and >> replacing it >>  with ansible-core). I suspect that the new ansible-core package >> doesn't >>  properly obsolete the older ansible package. Trying to Upgrade >> hosts from >>  the Admin portal would fail because of this requirement. >> >>  As a side note, my systems hadn't been updated since before the >> mirrors >>  for >>  Centos 8 packages went away, so all updates failed due to failure >>  downloading mirrorlists. I had to do this first, to get the updated >> repo >>  files pointing to Centos 8 Stream packages: >> >>  dnf update --disablerepo ovirt-4.4-* ovirt-realease44 >> >>  -- >>  Jillian Morgan (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ >>  Systems & Networking Specialist >>  Primordial Software Group & I.T. Consultancy >>  https://www.primordial.ca >> >> >>  On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:53 PM Christoph Timm <ovirt(a)timmi.org&gt; >> wrote: >>        Hi List, >> >>        I see the same issue on my CentOS Stream 8 hosts and engine. >>        I'm running 4.4.10. >>        My systems are all migrated from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8. >>        Might this be caused by that? >> >>        Best regards >>        Christoph >> >> >>        Am 20.02.22 um 19:58 schrieb Gilboa Davara: >>        I managed to upgrade a couple of 8-streams based clusters >>        w/ --nobest, and thus far, I've yet to experience any >>        issues (knocks wood feaviously). >> >>  - Gilboa >> >>  On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 3:21 PM Daniel McCoshen >>  &lt;upstagecoronet(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>        Hey all, >>        I'm running ovirt 4.4 in production >>        (4.4.5-11-1.el8), and I'm attempting to update the >>        OS on my hosts. The hosts are all centos 8 stream, >>        and dnf update is failing on all of them with the >>        following output: >> >>        [root@ovirthost ~]# dnf update >>        Last metadata expiration check: 1:36:32 ago on Thu >>        17 Feb 2022 12:01:25 PM CST. >>        Error: >>         Problem: package >>        cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.15.1-1.el8.noarch requires >>        ansible, but none of the providers can be installed >>          - package ansible-2.9.27-2.el8.noarch conflicts >>        with ansible-core > 2.11.0 provided by >>        ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>          - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>        obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by >>        ansible-2.9.27-2.el8.noarch >>          - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>        obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by >>        ansible-2.9.27-1.el8.noarch >>          - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>        obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by >>        ansible-2.9.17-1.el8.noarch >>          - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>        obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by >>        ansible-2.9.18-2.el8.noarch >>          - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>        obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by >>        ansible-2.9.20-2.el8.noarch >>          - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>        obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by >>        ansible-2.9.21-2.el8.noarch >>          - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>        obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by >>        ansible-2.9.23-2.el8.noarch >>          - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 >>        obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by >>        ansible-2.9.24-2.el8.noarch >>          - cannot install the best update candidate for >>        package cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.15.1-1.el8.noarch >>          - cannot install the best update candidate for >>        package ansible-2.9.27-2.el8.noarch >>          - package ansible-2.9.20-1.el8.noarch is filtered >>        out by exclude filtering >>          - package ansible-2.9.16-1.el8.noarch is filtered >>        out by exclude filtering >>          - package ansible-2.9.19-1.el8.noarch is filtered >>        out by exclude filtering >>          - package ansible-2.9.23-1.el8.noarch is filtered >>        out by exclude filtering >>        (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to >>        replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to >>        skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not >>        only best candidate packages) >> >>        cockpit-ovirt-dashboard.noarch is at 0.15.1-1.el8, >>        and it looks like that conflicting ansible-core >>        package was added to the 8-stream repo two days ago. >>        That's when I first noticed the issue, but I it >>        might be older. When the eariler issues with the >>        centos 8 deprecation happened, I had swapped out the >>        repos on some of these hosts for the new ones, and >>        have since added new hosts as well, using the >>        updated repos. Both hosts that had been moved from >>        the old repos, and ones created with the new repos >>        are experienceing this issue. >> >>        ansible-core is being pulled from the centos 8 >>        stream AppStream repo, and the ansible package that >>        cockpit-ovirt-dashboard.noarch is trying to use as a >>        dependency is comming from ovirt-4.4-centos-ovirt44 >> >>        I'm tempted to blacklist ansible-core in my dnf >>        conf, but that seems like a hacky work-around and >>        not the actual fix here. >>        Thanks, >>        Dan >>        _______________________________________________ >>        Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >>        To unsubscribe send an email to >>        users-leave(a)ovirt.org >>        Privacy Statement: >>        https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >>        oVirt Code of Conduct: >> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >>        List >> Archives:https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/3N... >>        U5HHDGNOZHDSO4IBGFF/ >> >> >>  _______________________________________________ >>  Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >>  To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >>  Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >>  oVirt Code of Conduct: >>  https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guide >>  lines/ >>  List Archives: >>  https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message >>  /YJ336275NTG4M4AUOBTJNBZ3RD2L6HXA/ >> >> >>  _______________________________________________ >>  Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >>  To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >>  Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >>  oVirt Code of Conduct: >>  https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >>  List >>  Archives:https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/YZSDKGFDHRXVY >> >>  2S2WKW4XFQOAGUZ4HLQ/ >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/TGWZDDZECQM...