[node-devel] Using yum in Node

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Burns" <mburns at redhat.com>
> To: "Fabian Deutsch" <fabiand at redhat.com>
> Cc: node-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 8:56:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [node-devel] Using yum in Node
> 
> On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 09:50 +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > yum landed in node quite recently - not in the official build, but
> > in
> > gerrit [0].
> > It's somewhat tricky to get it working, I added a small section to
> > the
> > Node troubleshooting wiki page [1] to give other a better start.
> 
> Just for clarity, this is being done to support plugins.  It will
> only
> be supported offline when using the edit-node functionality.
> 

Obviously the reason for this is not for users to have yum available for use on the node when it's deployed but it's going to cause confusion with users that they have utilities like yum and rpm and can't use them, or if they try to things fail in strange ways.

If we don't want or support runtime use of rpm and yum then having them in the node and available to be called is asking for trouble.
Having docs that explain why it failed and why they shouldn't be doing it isn't enough.


> Mike
> 
> > 
> > Greetings
> > fabian
> > 
> > [0] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,4522
> > [1] http://ovirt.org/wiki/Node_Troubleshooting#Using_yum
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