On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:39:48PM +0000, Justin Clift wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 21:04:46 +0100 > Niels de Vos <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> > > (1) The main problem is that RHEL/CentOS now provides the glusterfs > > client packages in a version that is higher than the community > > GlusterFS packages. RHEL (or rather Red Hat Storage) took a > > pre-release of glusterfs-3.6 and included that in RHEL-6.6. This > > means that on updating, yum will find the newer RHEL packages, but > > there is no matching glusterfs-server. If you have glusterfs-server > > installed from the gluster.org repository, yum can not update > > glusterfs-server, and dependency errors are the result. > > <snip> > > The first problem is going to be solved by releasing glusterfs-3.6.1 > > in the following days. This makes the community version have a higher > > version than the packages in RHEL/CentOS, and yum would prefer these > > and it can resolve all dependencies, including glusterfs-server. > > As an idea, do you reckon using the "Epoch" tag in the .spec files > (upstream, or RHS downstream) would help to fix the problem? That is an option, and we briefly considered it. But it is not a very nice thing to do. We have to update the package for 3.6 anyway, so 3.6.1 is a nice solution. It would work for 3.4 and 3.5 (epoch/serial needs to be set to the same value for all community packages, in that case), but there might be other difficulties while (automatic) downgrading the RHEL/CentOS glusterfs-3.6.0 packages. My current preference goes to "exclude=glusterfs*" in yum.conf(.d?) and a "includepkgs=glusterfs*" in the gluster.repo file. However, I've not tested it with "yum downgrade" either. It is relatively easy to push a packaging change only, that would not demand a 3.6.2 release. I hope to have time to discuss about our preferred approach for 3.4 and 3.5 later this week. Thanks, Niels > > Daniel Veillard (CC'd) suggested it today in my team meeting when > hearing of the problem. Apparently it's an old packager trick for > dealing with issues like this. (not a very well liked trick, but > it's there for a reason, etc.) > > Regards and best wishes, > > Justin Clift > > -- > GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org > > An open source, distributed file system scaling to several > petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. > > My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift
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