[Rdo-list] iproute yum update issues in RDO Grizzly

[Lon Hohberger]

On 08/15/2013 11:00 AM, Perry Myers wrote:
> Just noticed this morning (thanks to jmartin to pointing it out)
> 
> We had two versions of iproute in:
> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-grizzly/epel-6/
> 
> iproute-2.6.32-23.el6ost.netns.2.x86_64.rpm
> iproute-2.6.32-23.el_6.netns.1.x86_64.rpm
> 
> The .2 package is newer, but unfortunately since el_6 is > el6ost in yum
> dependency resolution, folks were getting error messages like:
> 
> "package iproute-2.6.32-23.el6_4.netns.1.x86_64 (which is newer than
> iproute-2.6.32-23.el6ost.netns.2.x86_64) is already installed"
> 
> We have since removed the el_6 package from the repo, so going forward
> there should be no problems.
> 
> However, if you have an existing system and need to update to the .2
> iproute, you'll need to force remove the old one and install the new via
> something like:

Just to add a detail to what Perry pointed out here -

The two packages are code-equivalent; the .1 package was a test build;
the .2 package is the same code with some patches renamed, nothing more.

For existing installations, there is no pressing need to update to the
.2 package from the .1 package.

-- Lon