Installation of Oracle Linux

[Stefan Miktov Ivanov]

Hi Team,

seems Oracle Linux is not support by default from MAAS can some take a look on this.

Last lines from failed deployment:

finish: cmd-install/stage-extract/builtin/cmd-extract: SUCCESS: acquiring and extracting image from http://10.202.2.106:5248/images/custom/amd64/generic/oracle-linux-8/uploaded/root-tgz
Applying write_files from config.
finish: cmd-install/stage-extract/builtin/cmd-extract: SUCCESS: curtin command extract
start: cmd-install/stage-curthooks/builtin/cmd-curthooks: curtin command curthooks
Running curtin builtin curthooks
finish: cmd-install/stage-curthooks/builtin/cmd-curthooks: FAIL: curtin command curthooks
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/curtin/curtin/commands/main.py", line 202, in main
    ret = args.func(args)
  File "/curtin/curtin/commands/curthooks.py", line 1884, in curthooks
    builtin_curthooks(cfg, target, state)
  File "/curtin/curtin/commands/curthooks.py", line 1679, in builtin_curthooks
    distro_info = distro.get_distroinfo(target=target)
  File "/curtin/curtin/distro.py", line 118, in get_distroinfo
    variant = name_to_distro(variant_name)
  File "/curtin/curtin/distro.py", line 57, in name_to_distro
    return DISTROS[DISTROS.index(distname)]
ValueError: tuple.index(x): x not in tuple
tuple.index(x): x not in tuple
curtin: Installation failed with exception: Unexpected error while running command.
Command: ['curtin', 'curthooks']
Exit code: 3
Reason: -
Stdout: start: cmd-install/stage-curthooks/builtin/cmd-curthooks: curtin command curthooks
        Running curtin builtin curthooks
        finish: cmd-install/stage-curthooks/builtin/cmd-curthooks: FAIL: curtin command curthooks
        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "/curtin/curtin/commands/main.py", line 202, in main
            ret = args.func(args)
          File "/curtin/curtin/commands/curthooks.py", line 1884, in curthooks
            builtin_curthooks(cfg, target, state)
          File "/curtin/curtin/commands/curthooks.py", line 1679, in builtin_curthooks
            distro_info = distro.get_distroinfo(target=target)
          File "/curtin/curtin/distro.py", line 118, in get_distroinfo
            variant = name_to_distro(variant_name)
          File "/curtin/curtin/distro.py", line 57, in name_to_distro
            return DISTROS[DISTROS.index(distname)]
        ValueError: tuple.index(x): x not in tuple
        tuple.index(x): x not in tuple

Stderr: ''

Attached curtin logs thanks in advance.

BR,
Stefan

[Lee Trager (ltrager)]

Oracle Linux is nearly identical to RHEL. I don't think there is anything MAAS needs to support Oracle. I suspect all that is needed is Curtin adding an alias to Redhat.

[Stefan Miktov Ivanov (tension183)]

Hi Lee,

Thanks again for your support but what i need to do?Open a bug in curtin launchpad space?

BR,
Stefan

[Lee Trager (ltrager)]

@Stefan, LaunchPad allows us to assign a bug to multiple projects. My comment was just so the Curtin team knows why I have it assigned to both MAAS and Curtin.

One thing I forgot is while Curtin needs to add support we should add an OS driver in MAAS as well.

[Francesco Santagata (phrancesco)]

Hi everybody,

I think it's absolutely the same scenario for Rocky Linux.

Doing the Job for Oracle could be quite the same for both OS.

Can't wait for extra OS support!

BR
Francesco

[Jerzy Husakowski (jhusakowski)]

Adding support for Oracle Linux is a new feature rather than a bug fix, as adding new distros often requires a small modification to Curtin and creation of a Packer template. We will close this issue and move the request to our internal product feedback backlog.

[Thiago Martins (martinx)]

It would be really nice to have this!