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

[Derrick H. Karimi]

On 02/03/2013 07:59 PM, Gilles Dubreuil wrote:
> 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?
I did.  Now, luckily, they have gone away and I am using 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.
To me it looked like they were available, see Kodiak's email for more 
detail.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gilles
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--Derrick H. Karimi
--Software Developer, SEI Innovation Center
--Carnegie Mellon University