[ovirt-users] Q: oVirt Node Update Wiped my Updates

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Johan Bernhardsson <johan at kafit.se> wrote:

> ovirt node is a small minimal os and will wipe your manually installed
> packages on an upgrade.
>

Now it has also RPM persistence designed as a mechanism by which packages
installed through yum/dnf can be saved and automatically re-applied when
the OS is updated.
https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/node/node-next-persistence/


>
> If you want local packages that are critical for you you should install
> full centos/rhev server and use that as a virtualization node. (This is
> what i did since i wanted more control of the virtulization nodes)
>
>
> /Johan
> On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 01:54 +0200, Andrei V wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > I have updated today oVirt node 4.1 via yum, installed from oVirt
> > DVD.
> > Update was a minor version change.
> > Now all software I had installed, including mc, Samba, etc. have been
> > lost. Looks like oVirt node is being updated with whole system 600MB
> > image, not just with rpms (please correct if I'm wrong here).
> >
> > Keeping my manually installed software is crucial, since it has UPS
> > and
> > hardware RAID monitor.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest if this is normal behavior or a single glitch ?
> >
> > So far I found only this instruction for node installation:
> > https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-oVirt_Nodes/
> >
> > And it uses pre-made DVD ISO, not manual install with RHEL/CentOS DVD
> > and RPMs from yum repository.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
> > Andrei
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