[Package Request] - Certbot

[hipwebdesign]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2022? Please describe and include package name.
Certbot (via snapd?)

Is this an update to existing package or new package request?
New package request.

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2?
Yes, via EPEL 7 and amazon-linux-extras.

[liesenml]

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[walmartshopper]

I would like this as well. It can be installed with "pip install certbot" but then it doesn't come with the systemd timer for certificate renewal, and I have to remember to update it manually. Adding it to the official repo would benefit many users running AL2022 as a web server and using free certificates from Let's Encrypt.

[virshu]

Like @walmartshopper suggested, I was able to install certbot through pip; however, I still wasn't able to install certbot-apache. It looks like there is python version incompatibility.

python3.9 is installed; but certbot requires python3.6

 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides python3.6dist(python-augeas) needed by python3-certbot-apache-1.22.0-1.el8.noarch

[ozbenh]

This works for installing certbot today via pip:

sudo dnf install python3-pip python3-pyOpenSSL
pip install certbot

Note: the pre-install of python3-pyOpenSSL is important, otherwise it tries to bring one from PyPi which is too new for the version of python3-cryptography that we ship, so it goes installing an even newer one which breaks awscli-2 dependencies (not in a fatal way but it's a rabbit hole you don't want to get into).

We are still considering packaging it but due to some dependency mess, it might take a bit longer than expected.

[limmike]

Please refer to #444

[nmeyerhans]

We expect to include Certbot in an upcoming AL2023 release. I don't have a specific ETA right now but we are aiming to have it available before the end of 2023.

[sambo2021]

for amazon-linux-2023
sudo dnf install -y augeas-libs
sudo python3 -m venv /opt/certbot/
sudo /opt/certbot/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
sudo /opt/certbot/bin/pip install certbot certbot-nginx
sudo ln -s /opt/certbot/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot

[ozbenh]

certbot has now been added to the just released AL2023.3