Good evening all,

I am trying to commission an ovirt host on new hardware using Centos 9.

I followed the pre-install instructions at https://www.ovirt.org/download/install_on_rhel.html, and eventually figured out that this line was missing from the preparation scripts:

dnf install rdo-openvswitch-2.15

With that, I was able to continue installation.

After completing the instructions, DNF update reports this:

[root@localhost administrator]# dnf update --nobest
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:06 ago on Fri 26 Aug 2022 08:20:27 PM CDT.
Dependencies resolved.


 Problem 1: package ovirt-openvswitch-2.15-4.el9.noarch requires openvswitch2.15, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package rdo-openvswitch-2:2.17-2.el9s.noarch obsoletes openvswitch2.15 < 2.17 provided by openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el9s.x86_64
  - package rdo-openvswitch-2:2.17-2.el9s.noarch obsoletes openvswitch2.15 < 2.17 provided by openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-51.el9s.x86_64
  - package rdo-openvswitch-2:2.17-2.el9s.noarch obsoletes openvswitch2.15 < 2.17 provided by openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-56.el9s.x86_64
  - package rdo-openvswitch-2:2.17-2.el9s.noarch obsoletes openvswitch2.15 < 2.17 provided by openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-81.el9s.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package ovirt-openvswitch-2.15-4.el9.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el9s.x86_64
 Problem 2: problem with installed package ovirt-openvswitch-2.15-4.el9.noarch
  - package ovirt-openvswitch-2.15-4.el9.noarch requires openvswitch2.15, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package rdo-openvswitch-2:2.17-2.el9s.noarch obsoletes openvswitch2.15 < 2.17 provided by openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el9s.x86_64
  - package rdo-openvswitch-2:2.17-2.el9s.noarch obsoletes openvswitch2.15 < 2.17 provided by openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-51.el9s.x86_64
  - package rdo-openvswitch-2:2.17-2.el9s.noarch obsoletes openvswitch2.15 < 2.17 provided by openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-56.el9s.x86_64
  - package rdo-openvswitch-2:2.17-2.el9s.noarch obsoletes openvswitch2.15 < 2.17 provided by openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-81.el9s.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package rdo-openvswitch-1:2.15-2.el9s.noarch

DNF info lists these 

[root@localhost administrator]# dnf list installed |grep openvswitch
centos-release-nfv-openvswitch.noarch            1-4.el9s                         @c9s-extras-common
network-scripts-openvswitch2.15.x86_64           2.15.0-99.el9s                   @centos-nfv-openvswitch
openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy.noarch          1.0-31.el9s                      @centos-nfv-openvswitch
openvswitch2.15.x86_64                           2.15.0-99.el9s                   @centos-nfv-openvswitch
ovirt-openvswitch.noarch                         2.15-4.el9                       @centos-ovirt45
python3-openvswitch2.15.x86_64                   2.15.0-99.el9s                   @centos-nfv-openvswitch
rdo-openvswitch.noarch                           1:2.15-2.el9s                    @centos-openstack-yoga


Questions:

1. Is this a problem?

2. If this is a problem, is there an FAQ sheet or known steps to work around/fix this?

3. Does there need to be an update to the pre-installation instructions?

David Johnson
Director of Development, Maxis Technology
844.696.2947 ext 702 (o) | 479.531.3590 (c)

 

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