[Gluster-users] RHEL6.6 provides Gluster 3.6.0-28.2 ?

Prasun Gera prasun.gera at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 18:14:44 UTC 2014


This is again broken after RHBA-2014:1875 on RHSS 3. It was fixed for a
while after Niels' last post. Tried to run update today, and got a bunch of
libvirt conflicts.

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 07:06:14PM +0000, Alan Orth wrote:
> > What's the prevailing wisdom on this?  For now I've just done the
> following
> > on my (CentOS) GlusterFS client:
> >
> > yum update -x "glusterfs*"
>
> (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.
>
> (2) There is an other complication in solving this issue. The 3.6
> release from the community provides libgfapi.so.7, whereas the RHEL
> packages provide libgfapi.so.0. Any applications (like qemu and
> samba-vfs-gluster) that link against the library, would need to be
> re-build when the community packages are used.
>
> 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.
>
> The second problem is a little more complicated to solve. We have been
> discussing reverting the change that causes the version of the library
> to increase, and replace it with a more fine-grained symbol-versioning.
> A rebuild of the related packages would then not be needed, and the
> libgfapi.so library will get loaded without issue by the existing
> binaries in the RHEL/CentOS repositories/channels.
>
> We'll be updating the mailinglists about progress on these topics, and I
> think a blog post will be published too.
>
> Cheers,
> Niels
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > On Thu Oct 30 2014 at 7:05:48 PM Chad Feller <feller at unr.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > On 10/27/2014 07:05 AM, Prasun Gera wrote:
> > > > Just wanted to check if this issue was reproduced by RedHat. I don't
> > > > see any updates on Satellite yet that resolve this.
> > >
> > > To exasperate this issue, CentOS 6.6 has now dropped, including
> > > GlusterFS 3.6.0, making the problem more widespread.
> > >
> > >
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