[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Dependency issue while installing glusterfs-3.6beta with vdsm

[Humble Devassy Chirammal]

Rebuilding related packages looks to be a solution , however it may not be
possible for each and every release builds of GlusterFS. lets discuss it in
community meeting and act.

--Humble
http://humblec.com

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 05:52:38PM +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> > On 2014-10-28 17:30, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 08:42:00AM -0400, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> > >> On 10/28/2014 07:48 AM, Darshan Narayana Murthy wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>     Installation of glusterfs-3.6beta with vdsm
> (vdsm-4.14.8.1-0.fc19.x86_64) fails on
> > >>> f19 & f20 because of dependency issues with qemu packages.
> > >>>
> > >>>     I installed vdsm-4.14.8.1-0.fc19.x86_64 which installs
> glusterfs-3.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64
> > >>> as dependency. Now when I try to update glusterfs by downloading
> rpms from :
> > >>>
> http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/3.6.0beta3/Fedora/fedora-19/
> > >>> It fails with following error:
> > >>>
> > >>> Error: Package: 2:qemu-system-lm32-1.4.2-15.fc19.x86_64 (@updates)
> > >>>            Requires: libgfapi.so.0()(64bit)
> > >>>            Removing: glusterfs-api-3.5.2-1.fc19.x86_64 (@updates)
> > >>>                libgfapi.so.0()(64bit)
> > >>>            Updated By: glusterfs-api-3.6.0-0.5.beta3.fc19.x86_64
> (/glusterfs-api-3.6.0-0.5.beta3.fc19.x86_64)
> > >>>               ~libgfapi.so.7()(64bit)
> > >>>            Available: glusterfs-api-3.4.0-0.5.beta2.fc19.x86_64
> (fedora)
> > >>>                libgfapi.so.0()(64bit)
> > >>>
> > >>> Full output at: http://ur1.ca/ikvk8
> > >>>
> > >>>     For having snapshot and geo-rep management through ovirt, we
> need glusterfs-3.6 to be
> > >>> installed with vdsm, which is currently failing.
> > >>>
> > >>> Can you please provide your suggestions to resolve this issue.
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Starting in 3.6 we have bumped the SO_VERSION of libgfapi.
> > >>
> > >> You need to install glusterfs-api-devel-3.6.0... first and build vdsm.
> > >>
> > >> But....  we are (or were) not planning to release glusterfs-3.6.0 on
> f19 and
> > >> f20...
> > >>
> > >> Off hand I don't believe there's anything in glusterfs-api-3.6.0 that
> vdsm
> > >> needs. vdsm with glusterfs-3.5.x on f19 and f20 should be okay.
> > >>
> > >> Is there something new in vdsm-4-14 that really needs glusterfs-3.6?
> If so
> > >> we can revisit whether we release 3.6 to fedora 19 and 20.
> > >
> > > The chain of dependencies is like this:
> > >
> > >    vdsm -> qemu -> libgfapi.so.0
> > >
> > > I think a rebuild of QEMU should be sufficient. I'm planning to put
> > > glusterfs-3.6 and rebuilds of related packages in a Fedora COPR. This
> > > would make it possible for Fedora users to move to 3.6 before they
> > > switch to Fedora 22.
> > AFAICT the only difference between libgfapi.so.0 and libgfapi.so.7 are
> > two added synbols (glfs_get_volfile, glfs_h_access) and __THROW on
> > functions. Wouldn't it be possible to provide a compatibilty
> libgfapi.so.0
> > to ease migration?
>
> That is possible, sure. I think that rebuilding related packages is just
> easier, there are only a few needed. Users that would like to run 3.6
> before it is made available with Fedora 22 need to add a repository for
> the glusterfs-3.6 packages anyway, using the same repository to provide
> related packages is simple enough.
>
> But, if there is a strong interest in having a -compat package, we can
> discuss that during tomorrows (Wednesdays) meeting.
>
> Thanks,
> Niels
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