[ovirt-devel] [ OST Failure Report ] [ oVirt Master ] [ 12-10-2017 ] [003_00_metrics_bootstrap.configure_metrics ]

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:

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>
> On 13 October 2017 at 14:31, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> 2017-10-13 11:29 GMT+02:00 Dafna Ron <dron at redhat.com>:
>>
>>> Adding Eyal, Barak and Sandro and removing Victor.
>>>
>>> Personally, I do not mind taking on this task, but I think that I would
>>> need help in creating such a task.
>>>
>>
>> I think we are already mirroring everything and refreshing the mirror
>> every few hours.
>> Issue looks like we are not using them in some jobs.
>>
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>
> I did not look deeply into this particular issue, but just to get everyone
> on the same page.
>
> * We have mirror system that is getting synced every 8 hours and has no
> known issues
>   ATM
> * All repo issues you're seeing in OST are due to one of the following two
> reasons:
>   1. We are white-listing packages into the OST environment and the list
> needs to
>      be maintained as package dependencies change
>   2. The OST VMs are not blocked from using the upstream CentOS
> repos/mirrors. And
>      the upstream repos are not updated in an atomic fashion
>
> We have ongoing work [1] to fix issue #2 above, it takes time because it
> requires meticulous work to get all the required things into the whitelist.
>

Since I send here and there patches to do this meticulous work, I know it's
not such a big deal.
Yes, it's annoying and I have not yet come up with an automated way to do
it (I'm sure there is!), but it takes few hours and we can do it once every
2 weeks or so.
It also has the nice benefit of reducing run time, sometimes dramatically.
Y.


>
> BTW when you see these issues in OST that are doe to upstream CentOS repos
> not being updated atomically, it usually correlates with a similar failure
> in the mirror sync job.
>
> [1]: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-1280
>
> --
> Barak Korren
> RHV DevOps team , RHCE, RHCi
> Red Hat EMEA
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