[rhos-list] Packstack Interactive Error

[Perry Myers]

On 02/05/2013 05:42 PM, Derek Higgins wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 03:56 AM, Perry Myers wrote:
>>>> I attempted using
>>>> openstack-packstack-2012.2.2-0.8.dev346.el6ost.noarch.rpm that you
>>>> directed me to. Unfortunately it appears it requires RHEL 6.4.
>>>>
>>>> "OS support check... Host 10.16.46.104: RHEL version not supported.
>>>> RHEL >6.4 required"
>>>>
>>>> RHEL 6.4 is not unavailable in RHN at this time. I believe that
>>>> anyone outside of Red Hat trying to use the Folsom installation
>>>> documentation might conclude that they could use packstack and RHEL
>>>> 6.3,
>>
>>>> but I'm worried they would run into this same problem that I
>>>> have encountered and not be able to complete installation using
>>>> packstack. Is the correct action:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Amend the installation documentation at access.redhat.com to
>>>> remove the references to packstack until
>>>> openstack-packstack-2012.2.2-0.8.dev346.el6ost.noarch.rpm and RHEL
>>>> 6.4 are available in RHN.
>>
>> RHEL 6.4 is not yet GA, but we want to make sure that users of RHOS 2.1
>> are starting with at least RHEL 6.4 Beta, which is available on RHN/CDN
>>
>> So if you're using RHEL 6.3, that error message is valid.  Best to start
>> with the RHEL 6.4 Beta.
>>
>> The docs do instruct users on enabling the beta repositories:
>> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_OpenStack_Preview/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/ch02.html
>>
>> But if you're using PackStack, it probably doesn't set the priorities
>> properly for the Beta channel and it also probably doesn't enable that
>> channel by default.
>>
>> Derek, thoughts on the above?
> We're currently registering with
> subscription-manager register --username=username --autosubscribe
> 
> which on RHEL 6.4 subscribes you to 6.4 Beta, a priority is then set on
> the repo rhel-server-ost-6-folsom-rpms to ensure openstack packages are
> installed from here. I think this is the correct behaviour.

Right.  That subscription-manager command gets you access to the Beta
channel, but does not _enable_ it unfortunately.

So we'd need to include a command in packstack like:

yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-beta-rpms

>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. Continue to find the root cause of the issue I am encountering
>>>> with openstack-packstack-2012.2.2-0.5.dev318.el6ost.noarch and RHEL
>>>> 6.3
>>
>> The second issue you hit is valid
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904670) and does need to be
>> fixed.  It should be fixed in the next few weeks and pushed up to the
>> RHOS Folsom Preview channels.
>>
>> Perry
>>
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