Add support for AlmaLinux

[tenthirtyam]

Description

Add enhancement to support builds of AlmaLinux.

Use Case(s)

With the change of CentOS Linux from an enterprise-stable operating system to an upstream development branch of RHEL, new projects have rushed to fill the gap left in its wake.

AlmaLinux is built and maintained by the developers at CloudLinux, a company that provides server hosting and Linux software. It's a company experienced with RHEL forks, having built and maintained their in-house distro called CloudLinux OS, a fork itself, for more than a decade. Going forward, CloudLinux promises to involve the community as much as possible when it comes to the direction of the distro.

Rocky Linux (recently added to this repo as a build) is headed up by Gregory Kurtzer, the original founder of CentOS. Rocky Linux is community-driven, and doesn't have the commercial developers on payroll the way AlmaLinux does. Depending on your point of view, this could be either a good or bad thing. One could also argue that if Kurtzer would have had CentOS' interests in mind in the first place, it wouldn't have been swallowed up by Red Hat and undergone the change in direction.

AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux naturally have a lot of similarities, but have some big differences in how they're maintained. Both distros are expected to be viable replacements for CentOS, and it probably won't make a huge difference which one you use. Being that they're both binary compatible with RHEL, you could theoretically switch between Alma and Rocky if it ever became necessary.

Potential References

The build should be very similar to RHEL and Rocky.

[tenthirtyam]

Enhancement for supporting AlmaLinux Server committed.

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