Request: configure PowerTools (or codeready-developer) repo on CentOS 8 (or RHEL 8)

[danielparks]

I’ve found documentation that the PowerTools/codeready-developer repos are important to some packages in EPEL when used on CentOS/RHEL 8. I haven’t actually run into this myself, though.

Perhaps the PowerTools/codeready-developer repos should be configured by this package?

[rnelson0]

Interesting, the epel-release package doesn’t install/configure a package/repo for Powertools, so one does wonder how required it is. A feature flag that defaults to disabled seems reasonable though, since others may already manage that through another module.

For codeready, that’s a subscription manager thing, I think that’s beyond the scope of this module.

[danielparks]

It’s definitely not required for any of the packages I’m using (well, at least the ones that still exist in 8). I’m a little unclear on why the EPEL packages would require it at runtime, since it’s mostly -devel packages. It’s possible that this is sort of an old wives tale, especially since I get the impression people are confused by all the missing packages (I know I was).

I have absolutely no problem with just closing this.

[rnelson0]

I’ll go ahead and close it for now, and if it turns out that it’s problematic, we can reopen and work on it. Thanks for bringing it up!

[BuJo]

Just as feedback:

We have been bitten by this while rolling out monitoring for our new CentOS 8 nodes.

nothing provides perl(Params::Validate) needed by perl-Monitoring-Plugin-0.40-1.el8.noarch

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1754947

So, all Nagios monitoring scripts using Perl do not work, as that package relies on PowerTools being there. I'm unsure if that's enough reason for it to be enabled broadly...

[sazzle2611]

We've just run into this issue trying to install amavisd-new on CentOS Stream 8

Thanks,
Sarah