[RFC] CentOS, Rocky, Alma 10
Peter
pjcreath+proxmox at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 02:10:01 CEST 2025
Thanks for pointing me to that patch series! What kind of testing would
you like me to do, given that you already have some local clean ups?
The one issue I noticed in the patch series was the repeated typo "netork"
instead of "network" in 2/4.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
wrote:
> Am 10.09.25 um 22:04 schrieb Peter:
> > After seeing the thread on Debian 13.1, I wanted to ask what the process
> is
> > for adding container support for version 10 of the various RHEL families?
>
> Sometimes it's enough to bump the accepted upper version limit, but that
> won't cut it for the RHEL 10 based derivatives, as there the support for
> the network configuration in the ifcfg format we previously used for RHEL
> family got removed.
>
> FWIW there is a patch series that includes the required changes [0], I
> started review and had some local clean ups on top in prepared but not
> yet fully finished. If you, or someone else, can test the mentioned series
> it should help to accelerate things a bit.
>
> [0]:
> https://lore.proxmox.com/all/mailman.338.1755988247.385.pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com/
>
> > As to the mechanics, similar to Trixie, there's a version check that
> blocks
> > installing a container running el10:
> >
> > --- LXC/Setup/CentOS.pm.orig 2025-09-10 15:57:05.961409961 -0400
> >
> > +++ LXC/Setup/CentOS.pm 2025-09-06 16:22:18.589570360 -0400
> >
> > @@ -23,5 +23,5 @@
> >
> >
> >
> > if (($release =~ m/release\s+(\d+\.\d+)(\.\d+)?/) || ($release =~
> > m/release\s+(\d+)/)) {
> >
> > - if ($1 >= 5 && $1 < 10) {
> >
> > + if ($1 >= 5 && $1 < 11) {
> >
> > $version = $1;
> >
> > }
> >
> > That lets me install version 10, but then I get a warning each time the
> > container starts. It turns out the pattern matching for systemd version
> is
> > a little too strict in LXC/Setup/Base.pm:get_systemd_version:
> >
> > if ($line =~
> > /libsystemd-shared-(\d+)(?:[-.][a-zA-Z0-9]+)*\.so:?$/) {
> >
> > This worked fine for version 9 and earlier, as their .so line looked like
> > "libsystemd-shared-256.so". But as of version 10, the .so line is now "
> > libsystemd-shared-257-9.0.1.el10_0.1.so". The "el10_0" throws off the
> > regular expression.
> >
> > Would it be preferable to loosen the pattern in Base.pm or to copy
> > get_systemd_version into CentOS.pm and revise the pattern there?
>
> The aforementioned series also addresses this, that patch got already
> applied IIRC:
>
>
> https://lore.proxmox.com/all/mailman.334.1755988211.385.pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com/
>
>
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