On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:10:01AM -0400, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > Hi, > > It has recently become more complicated to install community GlusterFS on > RHEL due to competing client-side packages that are in RHEL 6.5, 6.6, and > 7.x. Because the versions don't line up though, updates and installs are > prone to failure. N.B. this is precisely why glusterfs was retired from > Fedora EPEL circa the release of RHEL 6.5. > > To simplify installing community glusterfs going forward, our current > thinking is to deploy a gluster-release RPM on download.gluster.org. This > RPM will install an /etc/yum.repos.d/gluster.repo file with "priority=1" > lines for each of the sub-repositories. > > By itself these added lines are a no-op. > > But if the system already has the yum-plugin-priority RPM installed this > will result in the community glusterfs.repo being the preferred source of > glusterfs RPMs, over-riding any other source of glusterfs RPMs. > > And we will suggest that users audit their system and install the > yum-plugin-priority RPM if that suits their needs. > > Questions? Comments? Yes, I'm all for it! Niels _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
