[Pacemaker] CentOS packages repo

[Andrew Beekhof]

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 Heartbeat in centos repos is terribly outdated, pacemaker doesn't even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 bit outdated.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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