[CentOS] CentOS 8.3 bugs

Thu Dec 17 16:59:56 UTC 2020
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 12/17/20 10:50 AM, d tbsky wrote:
>> On 12/17/20 3:47 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>> Hi:
>>>>     just try to install CentOS 8.3. I use two sata disks and create
>>>> mdadm raid1 with LVM. Normally when I want to reinstall this system,
>>>> anaconda should recognize the raid1/lvm so I can reformat it.
>>>> anaconda at CentOS 8.3 failed to do the job. I tried Scientific Linux
>>>> 7.9 and RHEL 8.3, both can recognize installed CentOS 8.3 correctly
>>>> and let me reformat it.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a bug then, yes.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>     and there is no net-snmp-perl package in CentOS 8.3 repository.
>>>> although it is in RHEL 8.3.
>>>
>>> It's in appstream, checked in CentOS 8.3, Oracle 8.3 and Springdale 8.3.
>>>
>>
>> It is indeed there.
>> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/net-snmp-perl-5.8-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
> 
>   I find that now in the current mirror. but I could not find it  a week ago.
>  the problem old appstream repo file name is like below(and other
> previous files are also broken):
>  Nov 21 01:51 94ed8a9817da5e607b7674beb0b22fb09073901b041c26746124a5fd9f40a4e4-filelists.xml.gz
> 
> the fixed new one now net-snmp-perl is included:
> Dec 15 23:05 923c0ccd2eb9ea937baecdc108b9284cf8ea56d0ae9d2465a3c9efa0d5c8d402-filelists.xml.gz
> 
>  the strange part is "net-snmp-perl" is already at Centos-Stream
> before 8.3 release since I used it from there weeks ago. but it is
> missing at the 8.3 snapshot files until Dec-15.
> 
>  anyway I think it is fixed now.
> 

The compose takes place on pungi and the process has several config
files, etc.  Composing CentOS Linux 8 is significantly differ than other
releases, and it is more complicated.  We do fix things as soon as we
see them.

Sorry for your issue.