Re: Installation failure

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On 02/16/2015 08:44 AM, HEWLETT, Paul (Paul)** CTR ** wrote:
> Thanks for that Travis.  Much appreciated.
> 
> Paul Hewlett
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Velocix, Cambridge
> Alcatel-Lucent
> t: +44 1223 435893 m: +44 7985327353
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Travis Rhoden [trhoden@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 February 2015 15:35
> To: HEWLETT, Paul (Paul)** CTR **
> Cc: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Installation failure
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Looking a bit closer, I do believe it is the same issue.  It looks
> like python-rbd in EPEL (and others like python-rados) were updated in
> EPEL on January 21st, 2015.  This update included some changes to how
> dependencies were handled between EPEL and RHEL for Ceph.  See
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ceph.git/commit/?h=epel7
> 
> Fedora and EPEL both split out the older python-ceph package into
> smaller subsets (python-{rados,cephfs,rbd}), but these changes are not
> upstream yet (from the ceph.com hosted packages).  So if repos enable
> both ceph.com and EPEL, the EPEL packages will override the ceph.com
> packages because the RPMs have "obsoletes: python-ceph" in them, even
> though the EPEL packages are older.
> 
> It's a bit of a problematic transition period until the upstream
> packaging splits in the same way.  I do believe that using
> "check_obsoletes=1" in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf will take
> care of the problem for you.  However, it may be the case that you
> would need to make your ceph .repo files that point to rpm-giant be
> "priority=1".
> 
> That's my best advice of something to try for now.

Thanks Travis for the spot-on diagnosis.

We're tracking this breakage upstream at
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/10893 , "Install failing on RHEL-family
machines (due to mixed package sources?)"

and downstream at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1193182 , "ceph has
unversioned obsoletes"

- Ken
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