[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler/koan/python-cheetah blocking yum upgrade?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Nov 14, 2007, at 15:39, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> Those packages are not in the f7 "core" repo you have, hence the  
> problem.

python-cheetah is in there, at least.  cobbler and koan are in the  
updates repo - I *think* yum does the right thing there, but maybe not.

It could also be that I'm not using cobbler reposync properly -  
previously I was rsyncing mirrors with my own scripts, which I'm  
looking forward to abandoning in favor of cobbler's!  Do these look  
appropriate?:

---
-
     arch: ''
     createrepo_flags: -c cache
     depth: 2
     keep_updated: True
     mirror: 'http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/ 
Everything/i386/os'
     name: f7i386
     parent: ~
     rpm_list: ''
-
     arch: ''
     createrepo_flags: -c cache
     depth: 2
     keep_updated: True
     mirror: 'http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/i386/'
     name: f7i386updates
     parent: ~
     rpm_list: ''

Aside: the docs use repo names like this, but yum doesn't seem to be  
able to interpret "$basearchupdates", so f7i386-updates might be a  
better doc example, since yum can handle "$basearch-updates".

> AFAIK Anaconda upgrades will update everything they can and leave  
> the other packages out, which you could then update later.

Come to think of it, yum skip-broken might handle this as well.  Just  
for grins, if I were to:

   rpm -e python-cheetah cobbler koan

would I lose my data and config files or just the programs and rpmdb  
entries?  I could re-install the packages right after upgrade.

> AFAIK upgrading directly from yum (versus a CD) is usually not  
> recommended.

Yeah, that's the official position, but virtualization makes this  
even tougher - I'd have to take down 8 'machines' for a long time vs  
just a quick reboot.  Before xen, only one machine was affected;  
online upgrades are an even bigger win today.

Despite the official position, I have machines that work great having  
been yum upgraded from RH9 to F7, so far, F8 I'm just starting with.

This is all predicated on my observation that F7 and F8 don't work  
under an FC6 cobbler/xen install.  If others have contrary  
experience, I'd sure like to hear it - that would take some pressure  
off an upgrade timeframe.  I've looked for a matrix/docs of which  
versions of Fedora and/or Xen Dom0's can host which versions in  
DomU's, but I haven't been able to find it yet.  On the latest  
cobbler/koan under FC6 I can deploy other FC6 no problem, but F7 and  
F8 cause the Xen guest to crash during boot (according to xend.log).

Thanks,
-Bill

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