[Users] Trouble upgrading

Bob Doolittle bob at doolittle.us.com
Fri Nov 22 17:36:41 UTC 2013


On 11/22/2013 11:45 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 05:51:48PM +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>> doesn't vdsm require vdsm-gluster which requires them?
>>> vdsm requires vdsm-gluster only in gluster, gluster+virt clusters. Hence
>>> if gluster server side functionality is being exercised, we would need
>>> to use EPEL packages.
>>>
>>> For a virt only cluster, only the client side packages are needed and
>>> RHEL 6.5 has these packages.
>> vijay - didn't we add gluster-cli for libgfapi support in core vdsm?
> glusterVolume uses the cli to only to tell if it's using tcp or rdma.
> This vdsm dependency is currently a soft one (not declared in the spec),
> and would only affect users which attempt to user true glusterfs storage
> domains without installing gluster-cli.

This is not what I see. I see that vdsm.x86_64 has a dependency on 
glusterfs-cli:

# rpm -qa --whatrequires glusterfs-cli
vdsm-4.12.1-4.el6.x86_64


Hence the problem, since the new version of glusterfs does not deliver 
this package.

-Bob

>
> "Luckily" we do not have this problem since we can only use
> gluster-fuse..
>
> Dan.




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