[Rdo-list] havana-test-day: installation with packstack fails

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/11/2013 11:48 AM, Rami Vaknin wrote:
> On 09/11/2013 01:33 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 09/11/2013 09:30 AM, Rami Vaknin wrote:
>>> I'm trying to install rdo havana on rhel 6.4, I've followed the instructions in http://openstack.redhat.com/QuickStartLatest, it seems that packstack's answer file with "CONFIG_USE_EPEL=y" on a machine without prior epel repo file does not set an epel repo well, and as a result packstack fails
>> What do you mean by "not set well".
> 
> I'm using machines that were reprovisioned to rhel6.4 with epel repo.
> I deleted the epel repo manually and cleaned yum cache etc (yum clean all), then I've ran packstack with the "CONFIG_USE_EPEL=y" in order to have epel repo created and enabled by packstack (the CONFIG_USE_EPEL's doc string says 'To subscribe each server to EPEL enter "y"').
> The results of yum commands ran by packstack indicate that yum doesn't know epel and can't fetch packages from epel.

OK so I presume you rm'd the epel repo file rather than removing the epel-release package.
It would be good for packstack to actually inspect the epel repo to detect such manglement.

thanks,
Pádraig.