From c3e648d8f2bb23c81104f5e8a303600af53024ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Travis Rhoden Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 17:50:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add justification for check_obsoletes Signed-off-by: Travis Rhoden --- docs/source/install.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/source/install.rst b/docs/source/install.rst index 5742024..3817f68 100644 --- a/docs/source/install.rst +++ b/docs/source/install.rst @@ -32,6 +32,24 @@ displayed, similar to:: are not going to be uninstalled. For example librbd1 and librados which qemu-kvm depends on, and removing it would cause issues for qemu-kvm. +Distribution Notes +------------------ + +RPMs +^^^^ + +On RPM-based distributions, ``yum-plugin-priorities`` is installed to make sure +that upstream ceph.com repos have a higher priority than distro repos. + +Fedora +^^^^^^ + +The Fedora distribution maintains packages for Ceph in their own repos, independent +of the upstream repos on ceph.com. The packages are structured differently than +the upstream packages, and can cause dependency resolution errors despite the use +of the Yum priorities plugin. To resolve this, ``ceph-deploy`` enables the +``check_obsoletes`` flag for the Yum priorities plugin. + Specific Releases ----------------- By default the *latest* release is assumed. This value changes when -- 2.47.3