Beaker install and support for RHEL8
by Ken Strandberg
My organization is putting together a beaker cluster for testing on ever
advancing hardware. We are concerned about launching the cluster on
RHEL/CentOS 7 because they are no longer supported, which may result in
challenges in testing new hardware. I am evaluating building the cluster on
CentOS8, but, beaker-server fails with the following during installation:
Error:
Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
- nothing provides python-netaddr needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-lxml needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-decorator needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-jinja2 needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-flask needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-gssapi needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-itsdangerous needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-ldap needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-passlib needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-pwquality needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-sqlalchemy >= 0.9 needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
- nothing provides python-requests >= 1.0 needed by
beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
use not only best candidate packages)
I suspect it's because beaker uses OS ver 7 with python2 and RHEL/CentOS8
installs python3. I installed python2 and tried adding the missing python
packages, running update, flushing cache, etc, and it still fails with the
same.
I can easily build the server on CentOS7. It's flawless to get the daemon
running. But, we are concerned about the maintenance OS and emerging
hardware. Is there a way to get server to run on OS 8, and will it be
ported to 8 and python3 in the near future?
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*Ken Strandberg*
*Catlow Communications*
*Technical Marketing Writing for Web, Print, Film/Video*
www.catlowcommunications.com
ken(a)catlowcommunications.com
775-690-6575 (v)
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