[RFC] CentOS, Rocky, Alma 10

[Peter]

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/
>
>