[Bugs] [Bug 1296931] Installation of glusterfs-3.6.8 fails on CentOS-7

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296931



--- Comment #3 from Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Kaleb KEITHLEY from comment #2)
> Okay, but...
> 
> I believe that many of us understand that to install 3.6.x, by definition
> you must first uninstall the existing 3.7.x bits that are included as part
> of base CentOS (and RHEL.)
> 
> Given that, is this really a bug?

Yes, because this happens when there are no glusterfs packages installed. The
recent updates for CentOS-7 started to provide glusterfs-3.7.x (like RHEL-7.2).
Before the 3.6.x versions from the Storage SIG were newer than the base/update
packages from CentOS/RHEL. This has changed.

> Is it really possible, other than with some serious hack, to make a seamless
> 3.6.x install?

We already exclude some automatically generated provides/requirements for some
parts. I think we should be able to do so for the libraries in glusterfs-libs
too.

Alternatively the packages in the Storage SIG could use an epoch, so that they
will always be considered newer than the CentOS/RHEL packages.

> Can we solve this with (better) documentation?

I doubt it, it will make installing more difficult.

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