CentOS virt - Apr 2014 - Xen4CentOS: Unnecessary gpxe / ipxe obsoletes

I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I tried
to install KVM (for performance comparison), I got the following error
in YUM:

--> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/e1000-0x100e.rom for
package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64
Package gpxe-roms-qemu is obsoleted by ipxe-roms-qemu, but obsoleting
package does not provide for requirements

I manually downloaded the gpxe package and installed it with no
problems, so there are no actual conflicts in the files.  Thus, ipxe
probably *shouldn't* obsolete gpxe -- there are no conflicts between
the two, and ipxe doesn't provide what gpxe does.

If I had already installed KVM, and was toying with the idea of giving
Xen a spin, this may have been enough to deter me.

I checked with the XenServer guys, and their version of ipxe doesn't
obsolete gpxe; so that must have been something that was introduced in
CentOS.

 -George

On 04/02/2014 04:42 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> I checked with the XenServer guys, and their version of ipxe doesn't
> obsolete gpxe; so that must have been something that was introduced in
> CentOS.
lets drop that obsoletes. its just something we picked up from the
fedora rpms when we brought them in

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On 04/02/2014 10:42 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I tried
> to install KVM (for performance comparison), I got the following error
> in YUM:
>
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/e1000-0x100e.rom for
> package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64
> Package gpxe-roms-qemu is obsoleted by ipxe-roms-qemu, but obsoleting
> package does not provide for requirements
>
> I manually downloaded the gpxe package and installed it with no
> problems, so there are no actual conflicts in the files.  Thus, ipxe
> probably *shouldn't* obsolete gpxe -- there are no conflicts between
> the two, and ipxe doesn't provide what gpxe does.
>
> If I had already installed KVM, and was toying with the idea of giving
> Xen a spin, this may have been enough to deter me.
>
> I checked with the XenServer guys, and their version of ipxe doesn't
> obsolete gpxe; so that must have been something that was introduced in
> CentOS.
>
>  -George
>
OK, the repo here has ipxe that will install with qemu-kvm.

NOTE:  The seabios in the xen repo is much newer than the one in
CentOS-6 .. so we need to test this and make sure xen and kvm still work
before rolling into production repo .. here is the testing repo:

http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/

Lets get this tested and results posted on this list.

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On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:14:09AM -0500, Johnny Hughes
wrote:
> On 04/02/2014 10:42 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> > I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I tried
> > to install KVM (for performance comparison), I got the following error
> > in YUM:
> >
> > --> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/e1000-0x100e.rom for
> > package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64
> > Package gpxe-roms-qemu is obsoleted by ipxe-roms-qemu, but obsoleting
> > package does not provide for requirements
> >
> > I manually downloaded the gpxe package and installed it with no
> > problems, so there are no actual conflicts in the files.  Thus, ipxe
> > probably *shouldn't* obsolete gpxe -- there are no conflicts
between
> > the two, and ipxe doesn't provide what gpxe does.
> >
> > If I had already installed KVM, and was toying with the idea of giving
> > Xen a spin, this may have been enough to deter me.
> >
> > I checked with the XenServer guys, and their version of ipxe
doesn't
> > obsolete gpxe; so that must have been something that was introduced in
> > CentOS.
> >
> >  -George
> >
> 
> OK, the repo here has ipxe that will install with qemu-kvm.
> 
> NOTE:  The seabios in the xen repo is much newer than the one in
> CentOS-6 .. so we need to test this and make sure xen and kvm still work
> before rolling into production repo .. here is the testing repo:
> 
> http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/
> 
> Lets get this tested and results posted on this list.
> 
At least updating from xen-4.2.4-29.el6 to xen-4.2.4-30.el6 went smoothly :)

-- Pasi