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

[Kodiak Firesmith]

Hello All,
I can't speak for the requirements of essex over folsom part of your question, 
but I can cautiously assert that "Essex" is available for RHEL6 still via EPEL 
repos based on a table of versions here:
http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/install/yum/content/version.html#d6e297

...and the output of a yum query this morning from my EL6 workstation:

# yum --showduplicates search openstack-nova-compute
...
 N/S Matched: openstack-nova-compute
openstack-nova-compute-2012.1.1-15.el6.noarch : OpenStack Nova Virtual Machine 
control service
openstack-nova-compute-2012.1.3-1.el6.noarch : OpenStack Nova Virtual Machine 
control service  <-[Essex]
openstack-nova-compute-2012.2-2.el6.noarch : OpenStack Nova Virtual Machine 
control service  <- [Folsom]

# yum info openstack-nova-compute-2012.1.3-1.el6.noarch
Name        : openstack-nova-compute
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 2012.1.3
Release     : 1.el6
Repo        : epel-x86_64-server-6


- Kodiak Firesmith
Linux System Administrator
Software Engineering Institute | CMU
Office: 412.268.8771
Email: ksf at cert.org | ksf at sei.cmu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Gilles Dubreuil [mailto:gilles at redhat.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 7:59 PM
To: Derrick H. Karimi
Cc: Perry Myers; Eric B. Werner; Cliff Perry; rhos-list at redhat.com; Kodiak 
Firesmith; Todd Sanders
Subject: Re: [rhos-list] Installing Openstack Essex on isolated RHEL 6.2 
cluster

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




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