[Linux-HA] HB2 on RHEL AS4u5 (64-bit) -- Centos rpms better than Fedora in this case

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 7/4/07, Dave <davo_muc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just as an FYI, for anyone else who is interested...  I found using the Fedora
> packages available here (v 2.1.0),
> http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/ha-clustering/
> to be problematic getting them installed on RHEL 4.  The reason being that they have
> dependencies that are not easily resolved under RHEL 4.

more information?
i based the dependancies on the ones used by RH to build their
heartbeat packages but I'm all ears if you think i've made a
mistake...

> Instead, I had more success using the Centos packages here (v 2.0.8):
> http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/x86_64/RPMS/
>
> The rpm install order went like this:
>  heartbeat-pils
>  libidn
>  curl
>  heartbeat-stonith
>  lm_sensors
>  heartbeat
>
> This leaves me with a 2.0.8 installation, which might be okay, however, I'm under
> the impression that using the later 2.1.0 version would be more stable(?)  To other
> HB users feel that 2.1.0 is more stable???

don't use 2.0.8 if you have any choice in the matter
please read the various emails on the subject

> Also, is the source for 2.1.0 available?  I was only able to find the source for
> 2.0.8 on the HA website.

as has been explained many times here on the list, the sources for any
version are available from:
   http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/archive/<version>.tar.bz2
eg.
   http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/archive/STABLE-2.1.0.tar.bz2