[Users] Trouble upgrading

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:36:41PM -0500, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> 
> 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

You are correct. My statement about vdsm's dependency is valid only for
the not-yet-released rhev-3.3.0 (and thus, is not really apropriate for
this venue).

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

I still think that your problem stems from mixing and matching
epel-gluster repositories with rhs ones. It would be easier to deploy
oVirt+epel-gluster and rhev+rhs.

Dan.