[CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS: Unnecessary gpxe / ipxe obsoletes

[George Dunlap]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:37 PM, George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>> On 04/08/2014 11:19 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:14:09AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>> On 04/02/2014 10:42 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I tried
>>>>> to install KVM (for performance comparison), I got the following error
>>>>> in YUM:
>>>>>
>>>>> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/e1000-0x100e.rom for
>>>>> package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64
>>>>> Package gpxe-roms-qemu is obsoleted by ipxe-roms-qemu, but obsoleting
>>>>> package does not provide for requirements
>>>>>
>>>>> I manually downloaded the gpxe package and installed it with no
>>>>> problems, so there are no actual conflicts in the files.  Thus, ipxe
>>>>> probably *shouldn't* obsolete gpxe -- there are no conflicts between
>>>>> the two, and ipxe doesn't provide what gpxe does.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I had already installed KVM, and was toying with the idea of giving
>>>>> Xen a spin, this may have been enough to deter me.
>>>>>
>>>>> I checked with the XenServer guys, and their version of ipxe doesn't
>>>>> obsolete gpxe; so that must have been something that was introduced in
>>>>> CentOS.
>>>>>
>>>>>  -George
>>>>>
>>>> OK, the repo here has ipxe that will install with qemu-kvm.
>>>>
>>>> NOTE:  The seabios in the xen repo is much newer than the one in
>>>> CentOS-6 .. so we need to test this and make sure xen and kvm still work
>>>> before rolling into production repo .. here is the testing repo:
>>>>
>>>> http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/
>>>>
>>>> Lets get this tested and results posted on this list.
>>>>
>>> At least updating from xen-4.2.4-29.el6 to xen-4.2.4-30.el6 went smoothly :)
>>>
>>> -- Pasi
>>
>> Has anyone tested these RPMs to see if they work with KVM and xen
>> installed, etc.?
>
> This still doesn't work for me:
>
> # wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/x86_64/Packages/ipxe-roms-qemu-20120328-3.gitaac9718.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm
>
> # rpm -Uvh ipxe-roms-*.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:ipxe-roms-qemu         ########################################### [ 50%]
>    2:ipxe-roms              ########################################### [100%]
>
> # yum install qemu-kvm
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: mirror.krystal.co.uk
>  * extras: mirror.simwood.com
>  * updates: mirror.simwood.com
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package qemu-kvm.x86_64 2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/virtio-net.rom for package:
> 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8.x86_64

Sorry, this message seems to have to do with yum and not to do with
the new repo.  Let my try this again hooking it through yum instead of
manually installing RPMs...

 -George