[ovirt-users] Ovirt Installation on Centos 7.3 1704 is broken

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Eduardo Mayoral <emayoral at arsys.es> wrote:
> Quoted from https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.1/#fedora--centos--rhel
>
>
> EPEL
>
> TL;DR Don't enable all of EPEL on oVirt machines.
>
> The ovirt-release package enables the epel repositories and includes several
> specific packages that are required from there. It also enables and uses the
> CentOS OpsTools SIG repos, for other packages.
>
> EPEL currently includes collectd 5.7.1, and the collectd package there
> includes the write_ plugin.
>
> OpsTools currently includes collectd 5.7.0, and the write_ plugin is
> packaged separately.
>
> ovirt-release does not use collectd from epel, so if you only use it, you
> should be ok.
>
> If you want to use other packages from EPEL, you should make sure to not
> include collectd. Either use includepkgs and add those you need, or use
> excludepkgs=collectd*.
>
> The correct directive is "exclude=collectd*" , not "excludepkgs=collectd*" ,
> but other than that, this looks like what you are experiencing.

Thanks for noting this. No idea what I had in my mind - most likely
"extrapolated" this from includepkgs.

https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/pull/944

Best,

>
>
> Eduardo Mayoral Jimeno (emayoral at arsys.es)
> Administrador de sistemas. Departamento de Plataformas. Arsys internet.
> +34 941 620 145 ext. 5153
>
> On 08/05/17 12:14, Oliver Dietzel wrote:
>
> Collectd-disk and -write_http require an older version of collectd than
> offered by the repos (7.2.0-2 instead of 7.2.1-2 as offered by repo).
>
> Will there be updated versions of collectd-disk and -write_http?
>
> To reproduce try # yum -y install ovirt-engine
>
> on a fully updated Centos 7.3 1704
> https://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1704-01.iso
>
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