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

[Gilles Dubreuil]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 23:00 -0500, Perry Myers wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 08:29 AM, Kodiak Firesmith wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Yes, if you use --showduplicates it will show you older versions of the
> same package.

Is that the case as well for EPEL? Because I cannot get any older
packages from EPEL6 at all. 

Actually I never really realized that EPEL has only one repo, unlike
Fedora with the release and update ones.
So for EPEL, any previous rpm version gets overridden by updates.

This might be not be happening for Derrick and Kodiak because I
understand they are using EPEL through a software channel on the Red Hat
Network Satellite which keeps the older packages by default.
Kodiak, could you please confirm?

I know that's a bit out of the original question, but I'm curious to see
where we could get Essex from EPEL6 if we needed to.


> Adding the Folsom RPMs to the EPEL6 repos in a sense overwrote the Essex
> versions since a simple yum install will always pull the latest packages
> only.
> 
> But the packages are certainly still available for download if you get
> very specific and include the NVR or just download them via a wget from
> an online repo :)
> 
> Also it should be noted, that the RHOS Preview includes both Essex and
> Folsom repositories, but we definitely recommend that folks use Folsom
> at this point.
> 

I understand you are using RHEL6.2, meanwhile I suggest to update to
RHEL6.3. 

Cheers,

Gilles