xCAT 2.17 package installation failed with perl dependency in RHEL 9.4

[Kratika-P]

I am currently facing an issue with the installation of the xCAT 2.17 package due to missing Perl dependencies in RHEL 9.4. These dependencies are not included in the xcat-dep repository but are available in the EPEL 9 repository.

For RHEL 8, all Perl dependencies are either part of the xcat-dep repository or the OS repository (i.e., AppStream or BaseOS).

Could you please let me know if there are any plans to include the Perl package dependencies from the EPEL 9 repository in the xcat 2.17-dep repository(i.e. xcat 2.17 official release)

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Error:
 Problem: package xCAT-2.17.0-snap202408280000.x86_64 from xcat-core requires xCAT-server = 4:2.17.0-snap202408280000, but none of the providers can be instal
  - cannot install the best candidate for the job
  - nothing provides perl(Crypt::CBC) needed by xCAT-server-4:2.17.0-snap202408280000.noarch from xcat-core
  - nothing provides perl(Crypt::Rijndael) needed by xCAT-server-4:2.17.0-snap202408280000.noarch from xcat-core
  - nothing provides perl(Sys::Virt) needed by xCAT-server-4:2.17.0-snap202408280000.noarch from xcat-core
  - nothing provides perl-Crypt-SSLeay needed by xCAT-server-4:2.17.0-snap202408280000.noarch from xcat-core
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

[Obihoernchen]

Hi,

no there are no plans to include these packages. Please enable EPEL and CRB repos for xCAT on EL9.

[abhishek-sa1]

@Obihoernchen Can we make these perl packages part of xcat dependency repository like in RHEL8 to avoid epel dependency of XCAT only in RHEL 9

[samveen]

@abhishek-sa1 @Kratika-P

• Taking on the packaging burden of those packages provided by RHEL (and thus clones) and EPEL would be a waste of time and effort.
• Enabling EPEL has been a requirement of installing xCAT since Centos 7.x, and there are multiple instances of this requirement. in the xCAT documentation (across x86_64 and aarch64 both). For RHEL9, this requirement can be seen in the actions taken by the automatic installer script go-xcat