Support for EL9

[Obihoernchen]

The following changes allow xCAT to be compatible with EL9 based OSs.

Also add support for Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux 8/9.

Note: The RPM signing key is still an issue on other packages. See: #51
For testing purposes you may remove the key with: rpmsign --delsign <rpm>

[gurevichmark]

@Obihoernchen
Thank you for this contribution. With your changes I was able to rebuild and install perl-Net-Telnet, perl-HTML-Form and ipmitool-xcat on RHEL9 . But I am having problems rebuilding perl-IO-Stty:

[root@vm-170 perl-IO-Stty]# rpmbuild --rebuild perl-IO-Stty-0.04-5.fc34.src.rpm
Installing perl-IO-Stty-0.04-5.fc34.src.rpm
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mock does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mock does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mock does not exist - using root
setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1611705600
error: Failed build dependencies:
        perl(Pod::Coverage) >= 0.18 is needed by perl-IO-Stty-0.04-5.el9.noarch
[root@vm-170 perl-IO-Stty]#

I can not find the RPM that provides Pod::Coverage ?

[Obihoernchen]

@gurevichmark sorry forgot to post the prerequisites:

It's from CRB repo:

perl-Pod-Coverage.noarch                    0.23-25.el9                      @crb               

For Alma/Rocky it's:

dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
dnf install epel-release
dnf install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-Pod-Coverage perl-Test perl-Test-Simple ncurses-devel readline-devel OpenIPMI-devel perl-HTML-Parser perl-HTTP-Message gnu-efi gnu-efi-devel perl nasm golang

For RHEL you need to enable CRB via subscription-manager.

[gurevichmark]

@Obihoernchen Thanks. With those prereqs I can now rebuild and install perl-IO-Stty

[besawn]

@Obihoernchen Thank you for the contribution. I have a few requests.

1.) The version of perl-IO-Stty-0.04-5.fc34.src.rpm included in this pull request is unsigned:

rpm -qpi perl-IO-Stty/perl-IO-Stty-0.04-5.fc34.src.rpm | grep Signature
Signature   : (none)

but the the version available from fedoraproject.org (https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/34/Everything/source/tree/Packages/p/perl-IO-Stty-0.04-5.fc34.src.rpm) is signed:

rpm -qpi perl-IO-Stty-0.04-5.fc34.src.rpm | grep Signature
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 27 Jan 2021 08:30:38 PM EST, Key ID 1161ae6945719a39

The other source rpms in this pull request are also signed. Could you please update this pull request to include the signed version of perl-IO-Stty-0.04-5.fc34.src.rpm?

2.) Can you provide some more information about the ipmitool patches?

What process did you use to arrive at this set of patches?

What hardware platforms did you test the changes on?

Are these included to fix specific problems you have encountered?

Can you provide some additional explanation of your thought process with these patches?

[Obihoernchen]

Hi @besawn

1.)
sure. I don't know why the RPM in this PR is unsigned. Probably because of some testing because of #51
It's fixed now.

2.)
I just used the latest EL9 ipmitool package and merged all patches.

So far I did tests on x86 and aarch64. But not in depth tests with fw updates etc. Just common stuff like rpower, rvitals, rinv.

No I didn't hit any issues. I had to rebuild the package for EL9 anyway, so I thought I could include the latest security fixes.
That was pretty much all I was thinking about ;)

[besawn]

@Obihoernchen Thanks for following up and thanks again for the contribution!