[rhos-list] Packstack Interactive Error

[Derek Higgins]

On 02/05/2013 10:49 PM, Perry Myers wrote:
> 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
Ok thanks, will create a bug for it.

> 
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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