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

Thu Oct 30 22:16:31 UTC 2014

On 2014-10-30 22:44, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> On 2014-10-30 22:06, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
>> On 10/30/2014 04:34 PM, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>>> On 2014-10-30 20:55, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
>>>> On 10/30/2014 01:50 PM, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-10-30 14:52, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/30/2014 04:36 AM, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think a compat package would make the coupling between server
>>>>>>> and client looser, (i.e. one could run old clients on the same
>>>>>>> machine as a new server).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Due to limited time and dependency on qemu on some of my
>>>>>>> testing machines, I still have not been able to test
>>>>>>> 3.6.0beta3. A -compat package would have helped me a lot (but
>>>>>>> maybe given you more bugs to fix :-)).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's an experimental respin of 3.6.0beta3 with a -compat RPM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7981431
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please let us know how it works. The 3.6 release is coming very
>>>>>> soon and if this works we'd like to include it in our Fedora and
>>>>>> EPEL packages.
>>>>> Nope, does not work, since the running usr/lib/rpm/find-provides
>>>>> (or /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-provides) on the symlink does not
>>>>> yield the proper provides [which for my system should be
>>>>> "libgfapi.so.0()(64bit)"]. So no cigar :-(
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> 1) I erred on the symlink in the -compat RPM. It should have been
>>>> /usr/lib64/libgfapi.so.0 -> libgfapi.so.7(.0.0).
>>> Noticed that, not the main problem though :-)
>>>
>>>> 2) find-provides is just a wrapper that greps the SO_NAME from the
>>>> shared lib. And if you pass symlinks such as
>>>> /usr/lib64/libgfapi.so.7 or /usr/lib64/libgfapi.so.0 to it, they both
>>>> return the same result, i.e. the null string. The DSO run-time does
>>>> not check that the SO_NAME matches.
>>>
>>> No, but yum checks for "libgfapi.so.0()(64bit) / libgfapi.so.0", so
>>> i think something like this is needed for yum to cope with upgrades.
>>>
>>> %ifarch x86_64
>>> Provides:         libgfapi.so.0()(64bit)
>>> %else
>>> Provides:         libgfapi.so.0
>>> %endif
>>
>>
>> That's already in the glusterfs-api-compat RPM that I sent you. The 64-bit part anyway. Yes, a complete fix would include the 32-bit too.
> A looked/tried at the wrong RPM
> 
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have a revised set of rpms with a correct symlink available
>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7984220. The main
>>>> test (that I'm interested in) is whether qemu built against 3.5.x
>>>> works with it or not.
>>> First thing is to get a yum upgrade to succeed.
>>
>> What was the error?
> Me :-( (putting files in the wrong location)
> 
> Unfortunately hard to test, my libvirtd (1.1.3.6) seems to lack gluster support
> (even though qemu is linked against libvirtd), any recommended version of libvirtd to 
> compile?
With (srpms from fc21)

libvirt-client-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-network-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-qemu-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-devel-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-docs-1.2.9-3.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-gconfig-0.1.7-2.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-glib-0.1.7-2.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-gobject-0.1.7-2.fc20.x86_64
libvirt-python-1.2.7-2.fc20.x86_64

I can create a gluster pool, but when trying to create
an image I get the error "Libvirt version does not support storage cloning".
Will continue tomorrow.

Qemu's that does not touch gluster works OK, so the installation is OK right now :-)

> 
>>>>> Have you checked my more heavyhanded http://review.gluster.org/9014
>>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> I have. A) it's, well, heavy handed ;-) mainly due to,
>>>> B) there's lot of duplicated code for no real purpose, and
>>> Agreed, quick fix to avoid soname hell (and me being unsure of
>>> what problems __THROW could give rise to).
>>
>> In C, that's a no-op. In C++, it tells the compiler that the function does not throw exceptions and can optimize accordingly.
> OK, no problems there then.
> 
>>
>>>
>>>> C) for whatever reason it's not making it through our smoke and
>>>> regression tests (although I can't imagine how a new and otherwise
>>>> unused library would break those.)
>>> Me neither, but I'm good at getting smoke :-)
>>>
>>>> If it comes to it, I personally would rather take a different route
>>>> and use versioned symbols in the library and not bump the SO_NAME.
>>>> Because the old APIs are unchanged and all we've done is add new
>>>> APIs.
>>> I guess we have passed that point since 3.6.0 is out in the wild (RHEL),
>>> and no way to bump down the version number.
>>
>> That's RHS-Gluster, not community gluster. There's been some discussion of not packaging 3.6.0 and releasing and packaging 3.6.1 in short order. We might have a small window of opportunity. (Because there's never time to do it right the first time, but there's always time to do it over. ;-)
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> But we're running out of time for the 3.6 release (which is already
>>>> months overdue.)
> So is my testing, hope I'm not the bottleneck here :-)
> 
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if anyone here looked at doing versioned symbols before
>>>> we made the decision to bump the SO_NAME. I've looked at Ulrich
>>>> Dreppers
>>>> https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/m/a/1/e/dsohowto.pdf
>>>> write-up and it's not very hard.
>>> Too late now, though?
>>
>> Perhaps not.
> +2
> 
> 
> 
> /Anders
> 

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