Yum updating - battle of the repos?

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Below is the current output if I check for updates on my rockstor installation at the console. It looks like centos that rockstor is based on has a bunch of updates.

The question is, should these updates be run or not? The kernel is flagged for update to 3.10 but rockstor is currently on 4.2.5. Naturally this is because yum is configured for multiple repositories so 3.10 is coming from normal centos repos and 4.2.5 is coming from the rockstor repo.

Is the rockstor repo all inclusive such that the updates from the standard centos repo aren’t needed? If so I’d suggest disabling the standard repos in the next release.

If it isn’t all inclusive, is it safe to update from the centos repo as-is or do some exclusions need to be made? I see no point in updating the kernel to 3.10 for example but I don’t know if it would “hurt” to do so or if it would just take up space in the /boot but otherwise be harmless.

Thanks!

[root@san01 ~]# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror
Rockstor-Stable | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
rockstor | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

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xz.x86_64 5.1.2-12alpha.el7 base
xz-libs.x86_64 5.1.2-12alpha.el7 base
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[root@san01 ~]# uname -a
Linux san01 4.2.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 27 12:32:38 EDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Great title @seijirou!

Short answer – yes, those updates should be run. Rockstor repos are complimentary to CentOS repos. Though we loose control by not channeling all updates through our repo, we don’t have the infrastructure to efficiently deliver all upstream updates to users around the world. Perhaps, we’ll get there some day.

This particular “update” from upstream is special becuase it’s the RHEL/CentOS 7.2 release updates. So, many packages were put in their “base” repo, such as the kernel. Normally, kernel updates from CentOS are distributed on “updates” repo and are excluded by Rockstor. But nothing is excluded from their “base” repo. Honestly, I did not know this is how they’d distribute. So, there’s a bit of a juggle.

You should update and afterwards, verify the python package version. It should be -18 and not -34. If you look at the yum config, you’ll see that we’ve excluded python updates from upstream-updates repo and -18’s come from ours. This is due to an incompatible backporting in -34. So, if you end up with -34 after the udpate, run an update again and it will reset itself.

Long story short, run the udpate, and run it again :slightly_smiling:

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Alright update after running upgrade.

The upgrade pushed 3.10 kernel and as I suspected, on reboot it booted in to 3.10 so it required 2 reboots to get back to the 4.2.5 kernel.

Also python did update to -34 as you thought it might. Unfortunately simply running update again didn’t change anything and my guess is that even with the exclusion in place, by default yum isn’t going to replace a new version with an older one.

I worked around this by running yum downgrade python-2.7.5-18.el7_1.1.x86_64 python-libs-2.7.5-18.el7_1.1.x86_64 which reinstalled -18 from the rockstor repo.

After doing that, yum update does not show anything marked for update. so I think my box is good now.

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Oh yes, you are on the stable channel right? The downgrade that you manually did happens automatically in the later code. Thanks for confirming that you are all set!

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Thanks for this post I also updated to the latest updates for cent 7 and had python .34 version the downgrade worked for me as well