[ovirt-users] Re: Host has available update for ovirt-host, but nothing found

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 9:20 AM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > > > > [root@ov200 ~]# rpm -q ovirt-host > > package ovirt-host is not installed > > That's weird. Can you check in yum.log (or yum history) if you ever > had it, and when/why it was removed? Never appeared before.. [root@ov200 ~]# ll -t /var/log/yum.log* -rw-------. 1 root root 8316 May 2 15:26 /var/log/yum.log -rw-------. 1 root root 38473 Mar 5 13:20 /var/log/yum.log-20190306 -rw-------. 1 root root 45516 Nov 22 11:10 /var/log/yum.log-20190101 -rw-------. 1 root root 15676 Feb 21 2018 /var/log/yum.log-20180326 -rw-------. 1 root root 51645 Oct 3 2017 /var/log/yum.log-20180101 [root@ov200 ~]# [root@ov200 ~]# grep ovirt-host /var/log/yum.log* [root@ov200 ~]# > > What to do? Do I have to install the ovirt-host package anyway? > > If you try to, does it bring with it any dependencies? yes, 148 dependent packages.... See full output here, I didn't apply at the moment https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hpkREaUFTVYTagLLIvCIF0xDR4zRVC96/view?us... Please note that this environment, external engine and CentOS hosts, was initially installed in 4.0.6 at beginning of 2017. Donna if this can be of impact.

> > Generally speaking: ovirt-host is a meta-package, not providing any > content by itself, that depends on all the packages that we need on > oVirt hosts. It's installed by default in node (it's actually the main > means used to decide what to put there, other than base OS), > installed/updated by ovirt-host-deploy, etc. > > So, yes, you should install it. If, when you try to install it, it > does not add any dependencies with it, then strictly speaking, you do > not have to, because it will do nothing (other than get rid of the > icon in the ui). > > Best regards, > -- > Didi Up to 4.3.2 and initial 4.3.3 the hosts didn't get this kind of requirement. It was a bug before or perhaps a problem introduced by the 4.3.3 async updates