[Pacemaker] CentOS packages repo

[Martin Gombač]

Andrew or who ever maintains clusterlabs.org rpm repo, thank you. :-)
Will be using pacemaker from there and openais from base/updates repo.

Regards,
M.

Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Martin Gombač <martin at isg.si> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> i'm going to start using pacemaker with openais (more likely) or heartbeat
>> (less likely) for the first time in production. Till now I've always used
>> heartbeat with v1 style configs in production. I also want to start using
>> "enterprise level solutions" like centos/redhat and not compile packages
>> from source anymore, be it using Gentoo's portage or by hand. Which brings
>> me to my "problem" (of laziness or getting older :-).
>>
>> Which package repository to use, to have fairly recent and stable releases
>> of pacemaker (and openais) for CentOS 5.4?
>>
>> Heartbeat in centos repos is terribly outdated, pacemaker doesn't even
>> exist, while openais is at acceptable version (0.80.6-8.el5_4.1).
>>
>> I'm aware of opensuse's/novell's repo and that's what i currently plan to
>> use:
>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ha-clustering/CentOS_5/
> 
> I personally wont be using (or updating) these anymore.
> After each release I end up spending a week waiting for the build
> service a) to be available, or b) to actually finish compiling.
> Which isn't an effective use of my time when I can do the same builds
> with a few lines of shell from my laptop using mock.
> 
> But if anyone else would like to take them over, don't let me stop you :-)
> 
>> while excluding these (openais, heartbeat,..) packages from CentOS repos.
>> Would you recommend using this repo, even thou it has older version of
>> openais than centos updates repo? Pacemaker there is still at 1.0.5 and so a
>> bit outdated. I also have no idea, how long will it be updated or whether
>> updates to centos can/will break compatibility with packages from novell's
>> repo.
>>
>> By far the best option would be, to use centoses repos for everything except
>> pacemaker, which i would pull out of your repo:
>> http://www.clusterlabs.org/rpm/centos-5/ :-)
>> Too bad it's still nonexistent. Can anyone tell me when it will be created?
>> Docs say soon. But soon is relative term. I'm going home, from work, soon.
>> :-) How can I help speed up the process of creating this repo?
> 
> If you refresh the docs you should receive a pleasant surprise :-)
> 
>> Any comments or other suggestions on above discussed matter are welcome.
>> Thank you for your time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> M.
>>
>>
>>
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