[ovirt-users] oVirt updates available on host due to libvirt missing

[Francesco Romani]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: "Gianluca Cecchi" <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>, "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>, "Francesco Romani"
> <fromani at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 2:01:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt updates available on host due to libvirt missing
> 
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > My self hosted engine environment was born in 3.6.0 in November with
> > CentOS 7 on host and CentOS 7 appliance.
> > I managed several updates applying 3.6.2, then 3.6.5, then 4.0.
> > Now I'm at 4.0.2 final and in web admin gui I see a message regarding
> > updates available on host (hosted_engine_1) that doesn't go away.
> > The host usually was updated through "yum update" and not from the gui
> > during updates described above.
> >
> > In events pane it seems the problem is related with libvirt package
> >
> > Host hosted_engine_1 has available updates: libvirt.
> >
> > Actually at this moment the libvirt package (that seems actually a sort of
> > meta-package) is not installed and I think has been never here. Situation
> > is:
> >
> > [root at ractor log]# rpm -qa|grep libvirt
> > libvirt-daemon-driver-network-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-client-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-lock-sanlock-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-python-1.2.17-2.el7.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64
> > [root at ractor log]#
> >
> > If I run "yum install libvirt" I'm proposed:
> >
> > Dependencies Resolved
> >
> > ============================================================
> > ========================================
> >  Package                              Arch          Version
> >      Repository      Size
> > ============================================================
> > ========================================
> > Installing:
> >  libvirt                              x86_64        1.2.17-13.el7_2.5
> >      updates        119 k
> > Installing for dependencies:
> >  libvirt-daemon-config-network        x86_64        1.2.17-13.el7_2.5
> >      updates        120 k
> >  libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc            x86_64        1.2.17-13.el7_2.5
> >      updates        747 k
> >
> > Transaction Summary
> > ============================================================
> > ========================================
> > Install  1 Package (+2 Dependent packages)
> >
> > How to proceed?
[...]
> I t should be safe to install the dependencies. Adding Michal and Francesco
> to confirm.

Not sure why it is proposed just now and not before.
The -lxc package is not used by oVirt, so it will just sit there.
The libvirt-daemon-config-network package should be harmless, it just contains
the configuration fir libvirt's default bridge 'virbr0'

Bests,

-- 
Francesco Romani
RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
Phone: 8261328
IRC: fromani