Support for RHEL9/AlmaLinux 9 via yum/dnf repo

[conathan]

Question 1: What is the problem?

I would like to request mod_passenger support for RHEL9 (Specifically AlmaLinux 9 in our case)

At this time, the yum repository at https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/yum/passenger/el/ only has EL6,EL7,EL8.

Question 2: Passenger version and integration mode:

open source 6.0.14 via mod_passenger (apache)

Question 3: OS or Linux distro, platform (including version):
AlmaLinux 9.0 x86_64

Question 4: Passenger installation method:

Your answer:
[ ] RubyGems + Gemfile
[ ] RubyGems, no Gemfile
[ ] Phusion APT repo
[X] Phusion YUM repo
[ ] OS X Homebrew
[ ] source tarball
[ ] Other, please specify:

[CamJN]

Now that rocky linux has released a el9 build, we can start work on this. Alma isn't sufficiently compatible with RHEL for our purposes so we had to wait.

Our packages are installable and compatible with alma, they just can't be built on it.

[jaboutboul]

@CamJN can you please expand and provide some detail on what issues you found?

[CamJN]

Sure, unlike RHEL, rocky linux, or the now defunct non-stream centos, alma linux uses sub-keys to sign their packages, so they don't work in mock which we use to build our rpm's.

[jaboutboul]

Thanks. You’re probably trying to use Alma 8 mock chroot to build on a CentOS 7 host. They have older versions of yum and rpm which don’t support subkeys. There’s an RH BZ issue that was opened about this a while back: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2017069

[jaboutboul]

Hey @CamJN 9 no longer uses subkeys by the way.

[CamJN]

Looks like EPEL hasn't made a GeoIP package yet for el9: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/9/Everything/x86_64/Packages/g/ need that to continue.

[carlwgeorge]

GeoIP is dead upstream, so it's doubtful it will be added to epel9 (although that's up to the GeoIP maintainer).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066787

[CamJN]

Dropped GeoIP, moving forward with this.

[CamJN]

Looks like there's still no epel 9 package for rubygem-rack, someone started adding one: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-1a8dcda52c but seems to have gotten distracted or busy. We'll need to wait for it.

[CamJN]

Technically there is a copr package, but asking people to enable copr is a bit much IMO.

[carlwgeorge]

Hey @tdawson, you built rubygem-rack for EPEL 9 but it is no longer showing up in the repo and the build is not tagged. Was there some kind of issue that necessitated it getting pulled?

[tdawson]

Sorry about that. Fixing it now.
rubygem-rack has/had a security CVE, ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2099525 )and then I got it mixed up with rubygem-rails, which does not install. ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2104327 )

I think the fastest way to get it back into epel9 is to get the security update some karma
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-0d0a29e337

[CamJN]

I upvoted it.

[tdawson]

We have enough upvotes now. Thank you to all who gave the update karma.
It should go out in today's epel9 update.

Again, my apologies for removing it.