[rhos-list] Installing Openstack Essex on isolated RHEL 6.2 cluster

[Gilles Dubreuil]

On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 12:47 +0000, Derrick H. Karimi wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 05:32 PM, Derrick H. Karimi wrote:
> > On 01/25/2013 04:04 PM, Derrick H. Karimi wrote:
> >> On 01/25/2013 03:57 PM, Perry Myers wrote:
> >>> On 01/25/2013 03:43 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> >>> <snip>
> >>>
> >>> The Essex packages are a different channel than the Folsom packages.
> >>> Unfortunately I'm not sure if that channel is still available which
> >>> may explain why you don't see them.
> >>> The RHOS Preview still should provide access to both the Essex and
> >>> Folsom channels.
> >> Ok I am trying to figure out how to get the Preview into the Satellite
> >> server.  Or if the Satellite server for sure does have Essex on it.
> > yum --showduplicates openstack-nova-common* reveals that 2012.1.3-1
> > should be available.  I am gonna try to force yum to install with that
> > somehow.
> I got one of my team members, Kodiak, involved.  He maintains the 
> satellite server, and was able to figure out , among other things, that 
> we were seeing Openstack packages from our mirrored EPEL.  We are not 
> sure if we still need the "preview" but he signed up for it anyway.
> 
> I am able to make you install essex packages by specifying complete 
> package names.  I went to the projects websites and tried to determine 
> which version matched the state of release essex.
> 
> yum install openstack-nova-2012.1.3-1.el6.noarch 
> openstack-glance-2012.1-5.el6.noarch 
> openstack-keystone-2012.1.3-1.el6.noarch  openstack-swift-1.4.8-1.el6.noarch
> 
> Some wierd stuff started happening with dependencies of keystone 
> 2012.1.3-1.  Once yum processed it it told me it wanted to install the 
> 2012.2 version of the same library!.  I think I finally got around this 
> by grabbing rpm's directly from our satellite's rpm search page on the 
> web interface.  And I do:
> 
> rpm -i python-keystone-auth-token-2012.1.3-1.el6.noarch.rpm
> rpm -i python-keystone-2012.1.3-1.el6.noarch.rpm
> 
> And then I yum in the essex versions of other openstack projects.  In 
> the end I have Openstack up, and am trying to configure it now.  I can 
> launch instances, but for some reason I can delete them.
> 

Hi Derrick,

Do you have any specific requirements requesting Essex instead of
Folsom?

Since you're tapping into EPEL6, at least for now, I wonder what's the
EPEL6 repo version you're using because EPEL6 has got only Folsom
packages since its release last December, superseding Essex.


Regards,

Gilles