Repo names on RackSpace Cloud Servers Rocky 8 image

[wheeler]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Rocky Linux 8
Webmin version	Unknown
Virtualmin version	7.0.3
Related packages	PowerTools

I have just tried to install virtualmin on a ‘clean’ Rocky Linux 8 VM created from the image available in RackSpace Cloud Servers.

The installation failed:

[2023-05-05 14:07:08 UTC] [DEBUG] Phase 2 of 3: Installation
Spin pid is: 14763
Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:59 ago on Fri 05 May 2023 01:55:10 PM UTC.
Package epel-release-8-19.el8.noarch is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
Installing EPEL release package: Success.
Spin pid is: 14834
Error: No matching repo to modify: powertools.

It appears RackSpace are providing their own prefixed versions of the Rocky repositories:

dnf repolist | grep Rocky
rackspace-appstream        Rocky Linux 8 - AppStream
rackspace-baseos           Rocky Linux 8 - BaseOS
rackspace-extras           Rocky Linux 8 - Extras
rackspace-powertools       Rocky Linux 8 - PowerTools

This is the same command run on a Rocky 8 system built a few months ago - so it looks like a recent change to the image.

dnf repolist | grep Rocky
appstream           Rocky Linux 8 - AppStream
baseos              Rocky Linux 8 - BaseOS
extras              Rocky Linux 8 - Extras
powertools          Rocky Linux 8 - PowerTools

I updated the install.sh to look for ‘rackspace-powertools’ rather than just ‘powertools’ and the install worked. I thought it would be worth posting here in case anyone else runs in to the same problem, or if the devs want to update the installer to detect this.

[wheeler]

For my own reference, as I’ve just had to do this again, the following needs changing in install.sh

1079       extra_packages=$(dnf repolist all | grep "^powertools")
1080       extra_packages_name="PowerTools"
1081       if [ -n "$extra_packages" ]; then
1082         extra_packages="powertools"

to

1079       extra_packages=$(dnf repolist all | grep "^rackspace-powertools")
1080       extra_packages_name="PowerTools"
1081       if [ -n "$extra_packages" ]; then
1082         extra_packages="rackspace-powertools"

I’m sure there is a way to make it match both which may be useful to be added to the main installer script, or perhaps an argument could be added to specify the location.