[Linux-HA] ldirectord on CentOS 5

[Greg Woods]

I currently have an old heartbeat v1 cluster that I am moving to a newer
Pacemaker/heartbeat v3 cluster. That is, I am moving the functionality
of the old cluster to the new one so that the old one can be phased out.
The new cluster is running all the latest stuff from the clusterlabs
repo under CentOS 5.5

One thing the old one does is run Linux Virtual Server and ipvsadm to
farm out incoming SMTP connections to multiple mail processing nodes
(virus scanning, spamassassin scanning, alias lookup, etc.). I would
like to have the new cluster do this.

>From what I have read, it appears that the "right" way to do this is to
install ldirectord and set up an ldirectord resource in Pacemaker. The
problem is that I can't get ldirectord to install. There is an
ldirectord package in the clusterlabs repo, and a heartbeat-ldirectord
package in the CentOS-extras repo, and they conflict. Neither one is
installed now but I still get this error when I try to install
ldirectord:

ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
heartbeat-ldirectord conflicts with ldirectord-1.0.3-2.6.el5.x86_64
Complete!
(1, [u'Please report this error in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise
%20Linux%205&component=yum'])

The same thing happens if I disable the extras repo, and even if I do
"yum clean all" first. If instead I try to install heartbeat-ldirectord
and disable the clusterlabs repo (which might result in a package that
doesn't work right in any event), I get a different error:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/ldirectord from install of
heartbeat-ldirectord-2.1.3-3.el5.centos.x86_64 conflicts with file from
package resource-agents-1.0.3-2.6.el5.x86_64


Is going to the source the only way to get ldirectord to install on this
system, or has someone else seen this before and know of a workaround?

Thanks,
--Greg