[Pacemaker] RHEL 5.4 + pacemaker broken?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:47 PM, jimbob palmer <jimbobpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/10 Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net>:
>
>>> 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?
>
> I'm not. I didn't specify an architecture for yum.

Strange.  Perhaps yum is confused.
Could you include the yum command you used and the output?

>
> I downloaded the repo file, put it in yum.repos.d and ran the install.
> The repo file itself makes no mention of the architecture, so I guess
> this means the metadata on the server is wrong?

Looks right to me:

[03:10 PM] beekhof at f12 ~ # zcat stacks/epel-5/repodata/primary.xml.gz
| grep location.*pacemaker
<location href="i386/pacemaker-libs-1.0.6-1.el5.i386.rpm"/>
<location href="i386/drbd-pacemaker-8.3.6-1.el5.i386.rpm"/>
<location href="i386/pacemaker-1.0.6-1.el5.i386.rpm"/>
<location href="i386/pacemaker-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.el5.i386.rpm"/>
<location href="i386/pacemaker-libs-devel-1.0.6-1.el5.i386.rpm"/>
<location href="src/pacemaker-1.0.6-1.el5.src.rpm"/>
<location href="x86_64/pacemaker-libs-devel-1.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm"/>
<location href="x86_64/pacemaker-debuginfo-1.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm"/>
<location href="x86_64/pacemaker-1.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm"/>
<location href="x86_64/pacemaker-libs-1.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm"/>
<location href="x86_64/drbd-pacemaker-8.3.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm"/>

The repo has both arches and its the client that decides which one it wants.

> Is there a reason why the documentation references a different yum
> repo (clusterlabs) to the one everyone on this list seems to use
> (suse)?

The suse one is old and no longer updated.
The clusterlabs one is the new and official location.