Hello all, TLDR: Spacewalk packages build and can be installed on CentOS 8.
as I am working on getting Spacewalk to run on CentOS8/RHEL8, I would like to share my progress here with you, in the hopes that you can contribute or share your experience/knowledge. I am not company sponsored, not a developer nor do I have much other knowledge of Linux. Around three weeks ago, I forked the GIT repo and the COPR repositories. So that is the basis of my current work: https://github.com/sbluhm/spacewalk https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sbluhm/nightly/ # Contains the packages from the original spacewalk nightly https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sbluhm/java-packages/ # Contains 421 Java related and other random packages https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sbluhm/python-packages/ # Contains 115 Python, Perl and other random packages http://dev2.bluhm-de.com/packages # Custom repo for locally compiled or added packages that I was not yet able to build. Primary objective was to hack everything together to get everything to build. I have added and built all required dependencies (mainly Python 2 and Java) and modified the RPM spec files so that it is possible to successfully build all Spacewalk packages. It is also possible to install all Spacewalk packages apart from spacewalk-proxy* and spacewalk-oracle* which I have no idea (or currently care) how to set up. Unfortunately, spacewalk-setup fails due to a postgresql configuration error (unrecognized configuration parameter "checkpoint_segments"), otherwise this would have been an additional great achievement. Next few steps I see (in no real particular order): - Clean up and verify the git changes and push them to the Spacewalk master. Michael, you will see quite a few SHORT pull requests coming from me in the future. It would be great, if you could sanity check them (as mentioned above, I am not a developer nor do I know what I am doing). - Fix the compile issues from my local repository and add them to the COPR repos. - Clean up the repos. I probably have more packages built than required. Including already existing RHEL8 packages and/or module conflicts. - Start moving code to Python 3 to get rid of the many custom built Python 2 packages. Open questions from my side: - What do I do with those build packages in my repos? How/where do I add them to hand my work over? Please give some assistance where to put what (git, nightly, python-packages, java-packages) and how. - Is there a reason to keep Python 2 or can everything be moved to Python 3? - What are the supported OS? I would say RHEL>=7 (remove 6 code), Fedora >= 29 (28 is EOL in May and I doubt we will be ready for a release by then). What about SLES? I have seen SLES specific code in there. - Probably create a wiki page/edit for instructions how to install the nightly on RHEL8 Do you see the next steps in the same way? Do you have any other suggestions, recommendations, guidelines? How can you assist? I will shift my focus for time being to a different project (evdi) to get my second screen working again. Then I will probably be back here. Best wishes, Stefan _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
