[Users] Ovirt guest agent for 3.2 el6

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 09/15/2013 01:34 AM, Andrew Lau wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Joop <jvdwege at xs4all.nl 
> <mailto:jvdwege at xs4all.nl>>wrote:
>
>     Itamar Heim wrote:
>
>         On 09/12/2013 08:16 PM, Joop wrote:
>
>             Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>
>             wrote:
>
>                 On 09/12/2013 12:17 PM, noc wrote:
>
>                     Is it possible to add an
>                     ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.8-el6.rpm to the ovirt
>                     3.2 repository?
>                     I'm asking because I tried the ovirt-guest-agent
>                     installation on a VM
>
>                 by
>
>                     slightly modifying the repo file to point to the
>                     3.3 directory and
>
>                 the
>
>                     dependencies that were used were only from epel.
>
>                     Regards,
>
>                     Joop
>
>
>                 can you please clarify a bit more why you can't use
>                 the 3.3 repo?
>
>             One thing 3.3 isn't yet available and second I'm still on
>             3.2 and would like keep the amount of admin to a minimum.
>
>
>         i may got the versions wrong, but it sounds like you are
>         asking to release the 3.3 version to 3.2 users?
>         (this is only for the guest, so doesn't affect the engine and
>         hosts)
>
>     Yes, since ovirt-guest-agent for ovirt-3.3 does work for 3.2 too
>     it would be nice to have the guest-agent available in the 3.2 repo
>     too instead of adding a, coming, 3.3 repo in a 3.2 environment.
>
>     Joop
>
>
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> Fedora seems to have ovirt-guest-agent-common in it's default repo, 
> whereas EL6 does not have any (even in EPEL) is this correct? It would 
> be nice to have it readily available instead of having to install a 
> repo just for one package.
The EPEL6 package is here:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=456118

>
> Joop, I tried installing just the RPM alone from the 3.3 repo and that 
> worked fine, that could be a workaround?
It is ok to use it, however you'll have some errors in the VDSM log 
about an unknown 'fqdn' message sent by the guest agent. Which you can 
ignore, it is not creating any problems, besides some log messages.

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