Hi Martin, I'm back at setting up beaker and running into issues that I can't debug. How/where do I go to get guidance?
Thanks. On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:43 AM Martin Styk <martin.s...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:40 PM Ken Strandberg > <k...@catlowcommunications.com> wrote: > > > > My organization is putting together a beaker cluster for testing on ever > advancing hardware. We are concerned about launching the cluster on > RHEL/CentOS 7 because they are no longer supported, which may result in > challenges in testing new hardware. I am evaluating building the cluster on > CentOS8, but, beaker-server fails with the following during installation: > > > > Error: > > Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job > > - nothing provides python-netaddr needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-lxml needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-decorator needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-jinja2 needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-flask needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-gssapi needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-itsdangerous needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-ldap needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-passlib needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-pwquality needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-sqlalchemy >= 0.9 needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > - nothing provides python-requests >= 1.0 needed by > beaker-server-27.4-1.el7bkr.noarch > > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' > to use not only best candidate packages) > > > > I suspect it's because beaker uses OS ver 7 with python2 and > RHEL/CentOS8 installs python3. I installed python2 and tried adding the > missing python packages, running update, flushing cache, etc, and it still > fails with the same. > > > > I can easily build the server on CentOS7. It's flawless to get the > daemon running. But, we are concerned about the maintenance OS and emerging > hardware. Is there a way to get server to run on OS 8, and will it be > ported to 8 and python3 in the near future? > > Hi Ken, > > Thank you for asking. > Yes. Beaker will not work on RHEL 8 at this moment due to codebase. > The codebase is not ready for Python 3 (used in RHEL8). At this point, > we added full support for Beaker-client + Beaker-common. So people on > fedora can fully use Beaker CLI as they were used to. Plans for adding > support for Python 3 in whole codebase are considered. However, I > can't say it will be in the short term. > > I would suggest you go with RHEL 7 - This is how we are operating with > Beaker in RH (Biggest silo of Beaker I'm aware of). > > If you any further questions don't hesitate ask or hit me directly. > > Best regards, > Martin Styk > Senior Software Engineer, Beaker Tech lead, PnT Infrastructure > Management and Automation > martin.s...@redhat.com > 713F EAF6 27C8 5BFE 070F 06EC 8839 4E84 D11A 98FE > > > > -- > > --------------- > > Ken Strandberg > > Catlow Communications > > Technical Marketing Writing for Web, Print, Film/Video > > www.catlowcommunications.com > > k...@catlowcommunications.com > > 775-690-6575 (v) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beaker-devel mailing list -- beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to > beaker-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > > -- --------------- *Ken Strandberg* *Catlow Communications* *Technical Marketing Writing for Web, Print, Film/Video* www.catlowcommunications.com k...@catlowcommunications.com 775-690-6575 (v)
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