[Users] Trouble Upgrading (Fedora)

[Dan Kenigsberg]

Joining two threads on that subject

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:32:55AM -0500, Yaniv Bronheim wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nicholas Kesick" <cybertimber2000 at hotmail.com>
> > To: "oVirt Mailing List" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 6:55:23 PM
> > Subject: [Users] Trouble Upgrading (Fedora)
> > 
> > I am having trouble upgrading on Fedora 19 to 3.3.1.
> > 
> > Two observations:
> > 1) I can't find ovirt-engine-3.3.1, even after a yum clear all; yum update.
> > 
> > 
> > 2) There is a dependency update circle involving
> > python-cpopen-1.2.3-4.fc19.x86_64 and dsm-python-cpopen.x86_64
> > 0:4.13.0-11.fc19
> 
> This issue is fine. Not so smoothly but we had to do that. 
> cpopen package is published as part of vdsm code in ovirt-3.3 and before,
> On master branch we require python-cpopen formal package that is shipped with fedora\rhel currently .
> 
> Each time you'll switch between newer version of current master (3.4) to ovirt-3.3 or older you will notice this report

We should break this vicious cycle.

I think it was intended to simplify "upgrade" from ovirt-3.4 to
ovirt-3.3 on Jenkins slaves. But that's plain wrong on a wider context.
The Jenkins issue should be solved explicitly by removing python-cpopen
when vdsm-python-cpopen has to be installed.

Dan.