hi all
I need some help
I do not have (yet) the hardware to test this on aarch64, please can you help here to verify the issues
others architectures are verified
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You can use a KVM machine for that: yum install qemu-system-aarch64
Download the aarch iso from CentOS mirror: http://isoredirect.centos.org/altarch/7.6.1810/isos/aarch64/
Make sure to select aarch64 when creating the VM.
During install you will have time for a trip abroad: it’s very slow!
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Thanx, will test it on aarch64 this affternoon
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I would like to test a couple of issues inside an aarch64 machine, so I’ve created a new scaleway account.
But when creating a new machine, there is no CentOS image available for ARM.
What are the steps to have a running CentOS/NethServer aarch64 machine on Scaleway? Do I need to create my image?
i’m just playing a little with some ns76 altarch to see where we are, because i was a litle absent during last two months… anyway, i think that Ultimate ns7 software updates origin policy break yum on altarch
error on software center:
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from ce-base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.6.1810/os/aarch64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
it seems that mirrorlist.nethserver.org did not handle correctly with altarch, ie if the ce-base seems to redirect to
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.6.1810/os/aarch64/repodata/repomd.xml
but there is no such url
to make it work i have disabled from ce-* mirrorlist and changed baseurl, ie:
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$nsrelease/extras/$basearch/
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/$nsrelease/extras/$basearch/
and i think we should also disable some repo for altarch:
ce-sclo* for armhfp
ce-sclo-sclo for aarch64
someone else had the same problem?
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Thanks for reporting, we will look into it!
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Just pushed a fix to mirrorlist.nethserver.org, would you mind checking it out?
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Just did a quick test using curl, seems good:
curl 'http://mirrorlist.nethserver.org/?release=7&repo=ce-updates&arch=aarch64&nsrelease=7.6.1810'
curl 'http://mirrorlist.nethserver.org/?release=7&repo=ce-updates&arch=armhfp&nsrelease=7.6.1810'
it seems ok to me, for aarch64 and armhfp. tnx!
ops… i talked too early… i’ve done a full update, but now i got error on sclo which didn’t exist for aarch64
more tests, later…
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Please give me the official URLs [or open a PR for them]!
This is from nethserver repo file:
```
[ce-sclo-sclo]
name=CE-SCLo-sclo-$nsrelease
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.nethserver.org/?release=$releasever&repo=ce-sclo-s$
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$nsrelease/sclo/$basearch/sclo/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo
enabled=0
[ce-sclo-rh]
name=CE-SCLo-rh-$nsrelease
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.nethserver.org/?release=$releasever&repo=ce-sclo-r$
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$nsrelease/sclo/$basearch/rh/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-SCLo
enabled=0Disabled it manually, like @dz00te said.
sorry I do not think I understood 
the problem is that ther is no official url… i mean if you check a mirrror:
http://dallas.tx.mirror.xygenhosting.com/centos-altarch/7.6.1810/sclo/aarch64/
only sclo-rh exixst for aarch64, while for armhfp there is no sclo* at all
i don’t know if it’s possible to manage this from mirrorlist (that will be probably the best solution), otherwise the only solution i see is to change
“/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/yum.repos.d/NethServer.repo/10base”
check the arch and and enable/disable [ce-sclo-sclo]
and [ce-sclo-rh] depending on the arch… but probably i miss something… 
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Yes, I forgot that …it’s the kind of input I need 
IIRC packages that we recompile from EPEL and SCLo as dependencies for our modules will go to nethserver-updates/armhfp. Wherever an upstream mirror exists, mirrorlist will point to it.
Otherwise it could point to an empty/dummy repo and its packages are expected to be in nethserver-updates (or nethserver-base).
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Yesterday I was able to install CentOS on a new Raspberry Pi4 2GB via this link:
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=71407&p=300229#p300246
After expanding the root partition I inserted the uSD into the Pi and was able to install NethServer:
yum install -y http://mirror.nethserver.org/nethserver/nethserver-release-7.rpm
nethserver-install
I had still some problems:
- repo’s ce-sclo-sclo and ce-sclo-rh still had to be disabled manually; I don’t know the implication of this;
- openVPN could not be installed;
- rspamd as part of nethserver-mail-filter could not be installed.
What are the options to solve these problems?
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You shouldn’t have any major drawbacks.
I have no idea on this.
I don’t know 
The ARM project is community driven but it’s a little bit stuck.
Maybe @dz00te or other ARM users can help to solve your problems
The rspamd rpm has been done manually by @mark_nl AFAIK, maybe he can upgrade the version or share his note to do it ourself ?
the last src.rpm I know is : http://packages.nethserver.org/nethserver/7/arm-base/Source/SPackages/rspamd-1.8.2-1.ns7.src.rpm
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Installation of nethserver-mail-filter requires rspamd ≥ 1.9.1. I really have no idea how to upgrade this. @mark_nl can you point me in the right direction?
I hope the ARM project stays alive. Older Pi’s were not so powerfull; other boards were more powerfull, but I wasn’t able to install a recent version of Centos on it. I believe the new Pi4 will change this and might be a energy-saving server for soho-use.
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I think it’s the same problem as with evebox, it’s not compiled for arm in the new version.
Perhaps @smutje1179 can help with compiling
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