Bug 1231922 – HDP plugin installs unnecessary EPEL package

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Bug 1231922 - HDP plugin installs unnecessary EPEL package

Summary:	HDP plugin installs unnecessary EPEL package

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat OpenStack
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	openstack-sahara (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.0 (Juno)
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity low
Target Milestone:	z4
Target Release:	6.0 (Juno)
Assigned To:	Elise Gafford
QA Contact:	Luigi Toscano
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Keywords:	ZStream

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Reported:	2015-06-15 11:49 EDT by Elise Gafford
Modified:	2015-08-24 10:49 EDT (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	openstack-sahara-2014.2.3-3.el7ost
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, the HDP plug-in installed the 'Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)' repository on cluster generation, even though neither the plug-in nor the saraha-image-elements package used the repository for any purpose. Consequently, a superfluous and potentially error-prone step was introduced into HDP cluster generation; in addition, these clusters may potentially update to unsupported packages. With this update, the repository is no longer installed by the HDP plug-in.
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Last Closed:	2015-08-24 10:49:09 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2015:1659	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Bug Fix and Enhancement Advisory	2015-08-24 14:47:56 EDT

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Description Elise Gafford 2015-06-15 11:49:00 EDT

Description of problem:
The HDP plugin installs EPEL as part of its installation flow. Providing that a generated image is used, nothing is installed from this repository, but failure to install it or read its metadata will result in a failed cluster. Empirical tests verify that this installation can be wholly removed.


How reproducible:
100% (cluster creation failure is extremely sporadic, but package installation is universal.)


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create any cluster using the HDP plugin.
2. Await cluster 'active' state.
3. Verify that 'epel.repo' exists in /etc/yum.repos.d/ on any cluster node.

Actual results:
EPEL repo exists on cluster nodes (though a yum list reveals that no package is installed from this repo.)

Expected results:
EPEL is uninstalled on RHEL HDP cluster nodes.

Additional info:
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221881

Comment 6 Luigi Toscano 2015-08-17 13:31:32 EDT

After this change, the instances of RHEL6 started by Sahara to build an HDP 2.0.6 cluster do not have the epel repositories enabled.

Verified with:
openstack-sahara-2014.2.3-3.el7ost.noarch
python-saharaclient-0.7.6-1.el7ost.noarch

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-08-24 10:49:09 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1659.html

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