12:12 p.m.
I just spent some time debugging an issue on #rdo in which someone
appeared to have done everything correctly but was unable to install
RDO because of several missing packages.
It turns out this was because they were working with an i686 CentOS
image.
I think we need to update the "Prerequisites" section of the
Quickstart document (http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart) to
indicate that we only support x86_64, because otherwise this is a
tricky failure mode to detect: there are no particular errors, and all
the .noarch packages still show up, so the problem is not immediately
obvious.
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12:18 p.m.
And/Or make the installer fail on a non-supported platform with a more informative
message?
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I just spent some time debugging an issue on #rdo in which someone
appeared to have done everything correctly but was unable to install
RDO because of several missing packages.
It turns out this was because they were working with an i686 CentOS
image.
I think we need to update the "Prerequisites" section of the
Quickstart document (http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart) to
indicate that we only support x86_64, because otherwise this is a
tricky failure mode to detect: there are no particular errors, and all
the .noarch packages still show up, so the problem is not immediately
obvious.
--
Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars(a)redhat.com> | larsks @ irc
Cloud Engineering / OpenStack | " " @ twitter
12:23 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:18:15PM +0000, Radtke, James wrote:
And/Or make the installer fail on a non-supported platform with a
more informative message?
I think "And", because we do need to update the documentation. But
yeah, a patch for packstack that would fail early on unsupported
architectures sounds like a good idea.
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Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars(a)redhat.com> | larsks @ irc
Cloud Engineering / OpenStack | " " @ twitter
5:32 a.m.
On 07/17/2014 06:23 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:18:15PM +0000, Radtke, James wrote:
> And/Or make the installer fail on a non-supported platform with a more informative
message?
I think "And", because we do need to update the documentation.
Done
But yeah, a patch for packstack that would fail early on unsupported
architectures sounds like a good idea.
+1 Please add bugs for packstack and foreman.
thanks,
Pádraig
3:22 p.m.
Looks like Padraig went ahead and made this edit this morning.
On 07/17/2014 01:12 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
I just spent some time debugging an issue on #rdo in which someone
appeared to have done everything correctly but was unable to install
RDO because of several missing packages.
It turns out this was because they were working with an i686 CentOS
image.
I think we need to update the "Prerequisites" section of the
Quickstart document (http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart) to
indicate that we only support x86_64, because otherwise this is a
tricky failure mode to detect: there are no particular errors, and all
the .noarch packages still show up, so the problem is not immediately
obvious.
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OpenStack Community Liaison
http://openstack.redhat.com/
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