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

[Anders Blomdell]

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?

> 
> When more details become available, I'll let this list know.
> 
> Cheers,
> Niels
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/Anders



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