Safe to install/use epel repository?
This in CentOS 7.3 plain hosts used as hypervisors and intended for oVirt 4.0 and 4.1 hosts. In particular for performance related packages such as bwm-ng iftop htop nethogs and the like..... Thanks, Gianluca
On 31 January 2017 at 13:27, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
This in CentOS 7.3 plain hosts used as hypervisors and intended for oVirt 4.0 and 4.1 hosts. In particular for performance related packages such as bwm-ng iftop htop nethogs and the like..... Thanks, Gianluca
We've been running CentOS 7 with the epel, ovirt, gluster & zabbix repos on all of our hosts.for a good few months now, without issue. -- D
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
This in CentOS 7.3 plain hosts used as hypervisors and intended for oVirt 4.0 and 4.1 hosts.
Generally speaking, we add epel with specific packages to ovirt-release*.rpm, and do not support all of epel. In practice, the only problem I personally know of is with epel packages that also exist in other ovirt-release* repos, perhaps in different versions. A recent example we bumped into: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/71386 ovirt-live uses its own set of repos, and used all of epel, and epel has a newer version of collectd than in the opstools repo (which is what we use). But it doesn't have collectd-write_http. So jenkins failed: http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-live_4.1-create-iso/70/console
In particular for performance related packages such as bwm-ng iftop htop nethogs
Perhaps add them with includepkgs, to be on the safe side, and not all of epel. Best, -- Didi
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi@redhat.com> wrote:
Perhaps add them with includepkgs, to be on the safe side, and not all of epel.
Best, -- Didi
Added the needed packages at the end of the includepkgs line of [ovirt-4.0-epel] section of ovirt-4.0-dependencies.repo Thanks!
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi@redhat.com> wrote:
Perhaps add them with includepkgs, to be on the safe side, and not all of epel.
Best, -- Didi
Added the needed packages at the end of the includepkgs line of [ovirt-4.0-epel] section of ovirt-4.0-dependencies.repo
I think you can have your own repo file, with a different name/id but same mirrorlist/baseurl. Didn't try. That way, it won't be overwritten if you later update ovirt-release40. This one won't be updated anymore, now that 4.1 is out, but the same applies to 4.1 of course. I updated the 4.1 release notes adding a note about EPEL. Best, -- Didi
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