[rhos-list] Packstack Interactive Error

[Perry Myers]

On 02/05/2013 05:54 PM, Derek Higgins wrote:
> 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.

Well... it's not clear we _should_ fix this, since once RHEL 6.4 is
GA'd, we of course wouldn't want to use the Beta channel

Maybe we shouldn't do it by default, but maybe we need a PackStack
config option like:

USE_BETA_CHANNEL

I'm sure you can think of a better name for the parameter though :)

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