On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 07:56:59AM -0400, Andy Goldstein wrote: > Hi all, > > I was working with CloudForms 1.0/Conductor yesterday and ran into an issue > that had me banging my head against the desk for a while. I had an > ImageFactory /etc/imagefactory/target_content.xml file configured to point to > several repos in Katello. In Conductor, I provided an image XML file that > pointed to some other (different) repos. When I went to build my image, I > kept getting an older version of an RPM installed, and I was *certain* that I > had a newer version available. It turns out that the RPM was available in > both a repo from target_content.xml and from a repo in my image XML. I'm > guessing the repos didn't have any priorities set, and yum just picked the > first repo in the list that contained my RPM. Unfortunately for me, it was > the older version. Once I promoted the newer version to the repo specified > by target_content.xml, all was good. > > So here's my RFE: I think it would be great if there was some way to preview > what will happen when you click "build image." At a minimum, I would like to > see a list of all the repos (in order) and a list of all packages (and if > possible, their versions) that will be installed. > > Thanks for listening :-) > Andy
JRD, Ian -- it seems like this wouldn't be that hard to do, any thoughts on getting it on the Factory roadmap? --Hugh -- == Hugh Brock, [email protected] == == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU == == Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds. == == http://aeolusproject.org == "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." --Robert McCloskey
