[Gluster-users] Gluster packages made available by the CentOS Storage SIG

[Niels de Vos]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:24:07PM +0100, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:03:36AM +0100, Jorick Astrego wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 11/20/2015 01:26 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > > Over the last few weeks we have been working on getting the repositories
> > > and related bits in place so that the Storage SIG is able to release
> > > Gluster packages for general consumption. I am pleased to announce that
> > > the majority of the requested versions are now available. Users can now
> > > simple install Gluster on CentOS 6 and 7 with only these two commands:
> > >
> > >    # yum install centos-release-gluster
> > >    # yum install glusterfs-server
> > >
> > > The centos-release-gluster package comes from CentOS Extras, and there
> > > are two flavour of this package. centos-release-gluster37 is the default
> > > that gets installed with the above commands, and provides a repository
> > > with GlusterFS 37. In case GlusterFS 3.6 is needed, you can install the
> > > centos-release-gluster36 package instead.
> > >
> > > More details about the packages that the Gluster project provides in the
> > > Storage SIG is available in the documentation:
> > >
> > >    https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/Gluster
> > >
> > > The centos-release-gluster* repositories offer additional packages that
> > > enhance the usability of Gluster itself. Users can request additional
> > > tools and applications to be provided, just send us an email with your
> > > suggestions. The current list of packages that is (planned to become)
> > > available can be found here:
> > >
> > >    https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/Gluster/Ecosystem-pkgs
> > >
> > > Gluster is the first project that provides packages through the Storage
> > > SIG. Other projects are in the process to do so too. General information
> > > about the SIG can be read in the wiki:
> > >
> > >    https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage
> > >
> > >
> > Most of our servers are running CentOS 7, but today I tried to update a 
> > CentOS 6 cluster.
> > 
> > The repo doesn't seem to be setup correctly after installing 
> > "centos-release-gluster36.noarch 0:1.0-3.el6.centos" for CentOS 6:
> > 
> >     http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/storage/x86_64/gluster-3.6/repodata/repomd.xml:
> >     [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404
> >     Not Found"
> >     Trying other mirror.
> >     Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> >     repository: centos-gluster36. Please verify its path and try again
> > 
> > When I check it manually, I can see that 
> > "mirror.centos.org/centos/6/storage" doesn't exist at all!
> 
> Thanks, this is indeed an issue and we've been trying to get it fixed
> since last week. Unfortunately it is not so simple, but I hope RPMs will
> be available later this week.
> 
> There has been an issue identified with the automatic package gathering
> that is done before the RPM signing happens and packages get pushed to
> the mirrors. It seems that i686 packages are included under the x86_64
> repo, and that is not what we want. The CentOS guys are trying to figure
> out what the best approach is to prevent that.
> 
> In the mean time, you can enable the testing repository, those are the
> (unsigned) packaegs that were expected to be available on the mirrors:
> 
>   # yum --enablerepo=centos-gluster36-test install glusterfs-server
> 
> Once the packages are on the mirrors, I'll send a note to this list
> again.

CentOS 6 packages for x86_64 are now available from the CentOS mirrors:

  https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-January/021617.html

In the next days, a similar announcement will be made when the i686
packages for CentOS 6 have landed.

Cheers,
Niels
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