Re: RHEL9?

Thanks, Nick!  Most useful.

Thanks for confirming that masterfiles version should be ahead of binary.   
It sounds like I can be bold in aiming for an across-the-board giant leap 
of masterfiles from current 3.12 straight to 3.21, regardless of binary 
version (mostly 3.15.3 at present).  Naturally I''ll test!

Thanks for the heads up about "rxdirs".  I had actually done a little "toe 
in the water" testing yesterday and "cf-agent" had shown me that problem 
looming on the road ahead!

I observe that the community download page 
https://cfengine.com/downloads/cfengine-community/ offers RHEL9/CentOS9 for 
3.21.0  LTS (good) but not for 3.18.3 LTS.  If 3.18.3 now supports RHEL9, 
could that page be investigated and rectified, please?  (Because of 
"rxdirs" I'd rather avoid 3.21 for the moment... there's plenty of other 
catch-up for me to do prior to that!  So if a 3.18/RHEL9 RPM s available 
that would be great.)

Meanwhile: a possible "semodule" bug report for 3.21 on RHEL9.  Latest OS 
(yum upgrade); I had installed before Christmas.  I hit the problem just 
now; then  did a yum upgrade (lots of packages upgraded), then rebooted, 
then tried again.  Problem still there.  This is the latest::

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.0 (Plow)
$ 
$ sudo yum upgrade
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - AppStre  41 kB/s | 2.4 kB     00:00 
   
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS   43 kB/s | 2.4 kB     00:00 
   
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
$ 
$ sudo yum install Downloads/cfengine-community-3.21.0-1.el9.x86_64.rpm 
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - AppStre  38 kB/s | 2.4 kB     00:00 
   
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86_64 - BaseOS   42 kB/s | 2.4 kB     00:00 
   
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package                 Arch        Version            Repository         
Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 cfengine-community      x86_64      3.21.0-1.el9       @commandline     
 2.3 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 2.3 M
Installed size: 8.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                       
 1/1 
  Running scriptlet: cfengine-community-3.21.0-1.el9.x86_64                 
1/1 
  Installing       : cfengine-community-3.21.0-1.el9.x86_64                 
1/1 
  Running scriptlet: cfengine-community-3.21.0-1.el9.x86_64                 
1/1 
libsemanage.semanage_pipe_data: Child process /usr/libexec/selinux/hll/pp 
failed with code: 255. (No such file or directory).
cfengine-enterprise: libsepol.policydb_read: policydb module version 21 
does not match my version range 4-20
cfengine-enterprise: libsepol.sepol_module_package_read: invalid module in 
module package (at section 0)
cfengine-enterprise: Failed to read policy package
libsemanage.semanage_direct_commit: Failed to compile hll files into cil 
files.
 (No such file or directory).
semodule:  Failed!
warning! semodule failed

  Verifying        : cfengine-community-3.21.0-1.el9.x86_64                 
1/1 
Installed products updated.

Installed:
  cfengine-community-3.21.0-1.el9.x86_64                                   
     

Complete!
$ 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

That mismatch "module version 21 does not match my version range 4-20" 
doesn't look right.

(As discussed earlier, I actually want to stick with 3.18 for the initial 
RHEL9 work, because of "rxdirs", but there isn't a 3.18/RHEL9 RPM.)

Thanks again.

-- David Lee


On Friday, 6 January 2023 at 15:20:15 UTC Bas van der Vlies wrote:

>
> > 
> > Your already in untested waters running older MPF with newer binaries, I 
> > would just work on getting to 3.21.0 or 3.21.x MPF.
> > 
> I agree with Nick and maybe add switch to a `cfbs` setup so you can 
> easily upgrade masterfiles or other modules/promise_types/bundles. It 
> saves a lo tof time. Just start a new server with this setup and 
> gradually connect your environment to this server.
>
> I just upgrade all our hosts to 3.21.0
>
>
>
>
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