[Pacemaker] RHEL 5.4 + pacemaker broken?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:26 PM, jimbob palmer <jimbobpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am planning an upgrade from heartbeat to pacemaker. The pacemaker is
> on new hardware.
>
> I installed RHEL5.4 64-bit and visited the pacemaker website.
>
> The pacemaker website lists the epel-5 repo as the source for
> pacemaker software, but the mailing list and elsewhere hints at the
> Suse RHEL5 repo.
> 1.  Which repo is recommended, and what is the purpose of the two
> different repos?
>
> With both repos I get an error regarding libperl.so:
>  Error: missing dependency: libperl.so is needed by package
> pacemaker-1.0.6-1.el5.i386 (clusterlabs)
>  Error: missing dependency: libperl.so is needed by package
> pacemaker-1.0.5-4.1.el5.i386 (server_ha-clustering)
> The errors seem odd because they reference i386 rather than x86_64. RHEL 64-bit.
>
> To work around this I have to manually install a 32-bit version of
> perl on a 64-bit distro. This is very unusual.
>
> 2. Are there plans to make pacemaker work with the 64-bit version of
> RHEL out of the box?

I thought it did.  All my machines are 64-bit so that's all I'm using.
Perhaps this is the problem though:
   pacemaker-1.0.6-1.el5.i386 (clusterlabs)
Why are you trying to install the 32-bit version of the package?