[Linux-cluster] fence_agents package for 5.5?

[Marek Grac]

On 01/24/2011 08:21 PM, Ofer Inbar wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:53:16AM +0100,
> Marek 'marx' Grc<mgrac at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> Ofer Inbar wrote:
>>> At http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/VMware_FencingConfig I see this:
>>>
>>> "If you are using RHEL 5.5/RHEL 6 just install fence_agents package and
>>> you are ready to use fence_vmware."
>> This package is available for RHEV-H (based on RHEL5.5) and is part
>> of RHEL 5.6.
> So...
>   - It's called fence-agents, not fence_agents (minor typo)
fixed
>   - It's not available for RHEL or CentOS 5.5
it it available in some channels for RHEL - it is not part of base or 
cluster channel; I do not know about CentOS
> ... the wiki is mistaken on both of these counts, yes?
>
>
> I've tried finding a fence-agents RPM I can use, but all the newer
> ones have big disruptive dependencies (such as needing a newer glibc),
> and older ones no longer seem to exist on the mirrors I've found
> pointers to.  I can find no evidence that fence-agents was ever built
> and distributed for any version of CentOS 5 / RHEL 5.
>
> Am I on the wrong track here, or is this a reasonable path towards
> getting a working vmware fencing agent for CentOS 5.5?
You can wait for CentOS 5.6 or you can use directly our git tree 
(cluster.git with branches RHEL5x) or fence-agents.git to have latest 
upstream version.

m,