[ovirt-users] oVirt Engine 4.2 -> 4.2.1 Upgrade

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Andrei Verovski <andreil1 at starlett.lv> wrote:
>> Hi !
>>
>> After oVirt Engine 4.2 -> 4.2.1 Upgrade do I need to run these commands as described in this article
>> https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.1/
>
> Please note that the start of this section says:
>
> "For databases managed by engine-setup this is performed
> automatically, but non-managed databases (usually remote databases)
> this needs to be done manually by administrators."
>
> Is your database remote or managed manually, or local and managed by
> engine-setup? If latter, it's enough to run 'engine-setup'.
>
>>
>> su - postgres -c "scl enable rh-postgresql95 – psql -d engine"
>> postgres=# DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS uuid_generate_v1();
>> postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp”;
>
> Sorry, this is a bug in the documentation. The commands should be:
>
>        su - postgres -c "scl enable rh-postgresql95 -- psql -d engine"
>        postgres=# DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS uuid_generate_v1();
>        postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp";
>
>>
>> BTW, this yelds error:
>> [root at node00 ~]# su - postgres -c "scl enable rh-postgresql95 – psql -d engine"
>> Unable to open /etc/scl/conf/–!
>
> Indeed.
>
> The reason that this bug happened is that the release notes are (partially)
> auto-generated, where this part is taken from the doc-text of the linked bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1515635
>
> The text there is ok.
>
> We should somehow make the resultant markdown mark such doc text as
> pre-formatted,
> to prevent it from replacing '--' with '–'. Adding Sandro for this.
>
> Thanks for the report!

This should fix 4.2.1 release notes page:

https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/pull/1552

This should fix similar cases for future release notes pages:

https://gerrit.ovirt.org/89033

Best regards,

>
>>
>> node00 is a dedicated PC with CentOS and oVirt Host Engine.
>
> Sounds to me like you are in the "this will happen automatically" case.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Didi



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Didi