@Alex I have a running centos8 vm. Maybe i can help…
> Am 20.02.2020 um 11:13 schrieb Alex Miller <alexmil...@apple.com.INVALID>: > > >> On Feb 19, 2020, at 20:09, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 2020-02-19 23:00, Alex Miller wrote: >>>> On Feb 19, 2020, at 16:07, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> foundationdb does take a while to build though, so finding binaries >>>> might short circuit everything to be even a single apt-get line or >>>> w/e. >>> The build is both slow and quite memory hungry. >>> In addition to FROM + COPY in docker, foundationdb.org hosts downloads in >>> both a tarball-of-binaries form and a .deb of the server. >>>> Though that papers over CentOS support and the like. Dunno what that >>>> story is like. >>> RPMs for RHEL6 and RHEL7 are also published (which I think should correlate >>> to centos6 and centos7). >> >> Are there plans for a CentOS 8 RPM? CentOS 8 has been out since September >> 2019, and is the only CentOS that we support with SpiderMonkey 60 today. > > I don't think anyone in FDB realized Centos 8 is out, so that's a good > question. > > After digging through packaging code, the only difference between the EL6 > and EL7 RPMs is that EL6 installs a sysv init script, and el7 installs a > systemd > unit file. The binaries in both cases are built on centos6 and the build > system > jumps through all the hoops of statically linking a C++ binary, so that > fdbserver will run on anything centos6 or newer just fine. This should > mean that EL7 RPMs are for EL7+, or at least, until Centos changes init > systems again. > > But, that's just theory, and doing a quick install on a centos8 VM sounded > like > it'd be qick and simple... > > Except parallels doesn't support centos8 out of the box yet, and I broke a > centos7 install trying to do an (unsupported) upgrade to centos8. So that's > out. > > Docker should save the day here, but it turns out that running systemd in a > docker container is nontrivial. Even when I did get systemd running as PID 1, > FoundationDB didn't start automatically for me, and systemctl doesn't work, > because centos:8 gives you a half baked systemd install that somehow lacks > dbus. > > So I'm out of easy options. fdbserver still runs manually just fine, and all > the files _look_ like they got installed in the right place. So if someone > has > an actual running VM of Centos 8, it _seems_ like things should still start > fine > when installing the EL7 RPM. > > This exercise did point out that centos8 intentionally doesn't provide a > /usr/bin/python, > which FDB's RPM packages accidentally depend on, so I've posted > https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/pull/2700 to get rid of that. One > will have to use `rpm -i —force foundationdb-server*.rpm` until the > next 6.2 release.
