I briefly searched for the yum-api solution, did not find one;
And as this involves python-session, I wonder if this straightforward if-then with a hardcoded basearch for arm 32bit is good enough?
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IMO we have one necessary conditional in /usr/sbin/nethserver-install 
In short : some templates asume /usr/lib64 is present and on 32bit (armhfp) it is not.
also see: arm-dev/issues/26
This is my proposal:
Other small issue is the release status for each arch, I know it’s just optical and %post in specs are not liked so much… nevertheless my proposal is:
What do you think?
I saw the patches and … 
Sorry but both are not acceptable, let’s find another solution! 
Could you please post the list of affected templates? Let’s if we can add extra templates, if needed.
I don’t understand what is the problem here: can you make an example?
I am not sure if the list is complete, known to be affected:
Nethserver-squid:
/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/squid/squid.conf/20acl_10_auth line 13 and line 19
nethserver-openvpn:
/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/openvpn/host-to-net.conf/50security line 11
BTW credits to hunt this down go to @mrmarkuz here and here
put this ugly code in nethserver-sogo a long time ago to solve it
It is pure optical, howerver may throw up questions…
If we manage to synchronize the releases in the furture it can be dropped 
Really good catch!
I prefer the Sogo code rather than a link which could break the system.
Please open a new issue containing the problem for both packages: I will gladly help to fix the templates.
For now, let’s put the “Alpha”/“Beta” tag only inside the doc, I’d prefer to not change the code for such cosmetic issue.
Will do so …
Upfront: has PERL some (environment) variables which could be use full ?.. (like pseudo-code $ARCH)
Oke, at least I tried 
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I’ve found this: Config - access Perl configuration information - metacpan.org
But I don’t know if it is really good, I’d go with a simple file check
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the WARING part is alarming.
Small code-style question, do you want me to comment “arm specific code” or not ?
I’d say only if the code is not self-explanatory. Probably in this case it could be useful to have it.
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Modifications for Squid and OpenVPN are ready to be tested.
I also know that @Amygos did some good analysis on the Raspberry image and he found that Dedalo (Hotspot) works well!
He also pointed out another library path problem: https://github.com/NethServer/nethserver-firewall-base/blob/master/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/interface-config-write-pppoe#L59
I think the fix can be the same of other cases.
Really thank you for the excellent work!
It’s holiday time here in Italy, I will be back on work January 7, but I will try to respond to any question during these couple of weeks!
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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?
Tested on virtual machine using qemu. Everything good.
Thank you @mark_nl!
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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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Seems like @Mr.Olie had the same problem:
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Just pushed a fix to mirrorlist.nethserver.org, would you mind checking it out?
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