notes about an idea to rpm install a more recent btrfs-progs rpm in f14 boot-cds...

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+# Situation
+
+On PLE we havea bunch of fedora14 BootCDs that seem to be able to perform installation of more recent fedoras on the hard drive, except for the version of btrfs-progs that ships on the BootCDs (0.
+It would be nice to be more confident in the version of btrfs used for partitioning a disk when upgrading a node (in fact we need to reinstall because a vserver-based node only has ext2 filesystems)
+
+# Proposal 
+* Trying to install a binary from from more recent fedoras won't work as is because of the dependency to glibc6
+
+* Idea is to rebuild a binary rpm that can be downloaded frmo the bootCD so that we use a more robust set of btrfs util tools.
+
+
+# Build details
+
+* Used a random f14 build VM (`2015-06-25--f14 x86_64`)
+
+* started from the source rpm the fedora20 `btrfs-progs` (trying to take something not too recent either)
+
+    http://fedora.mirrors.ovh.net/linux/updates/20/SRPMS/btrfs-progs-4.0-1.fc20.src.rpm
+
+* manually installed missing deps
+
+    yum -y install libuuid-devel libacl-devel libblkid-devel lzo-devel
+    
+* just ran this
+
+#
+    rpmbuild --rebuild http://fedora.mirrors.ovh.net/linux/updates/20/SRPMS/btrfs-progs-4.0-1.fc20.src.rpm
+    cd /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
+    [root@2015-06-25--f14 x86_64]# ls -l
+    total 5176
+    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  529920 Jun 25 14:49 btrfs-progs-4.0-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm
+    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4718860 Jun 25 14:49 btrfs-progs-debuginfo-4.0-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm
+    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   42916 Jun 25 14:49 btrfs-progs-devel-4.0-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm
+    
+# showstopper
+
+This rpm looks nice, it does not seem to have any odd dependency 
+(although this needs more confirmation in the particular context of a f14 bootCD)
+
+I have not been able to horseshoe it into the BootCD environment though 
+because in this context **we have no extra space in the ramfs**, not even as small as 4Mb !!
+
+Given that a f14 bootCD does seem fit to install a f22 hard drive, 
+I will assume this is no big deal and proceed as-is;
+
+For the record what I see right now in my builds is the f14 bootCD has
+
+    # btrfs --version 
+    Btrfs Btrfs v0.19
+
+