Is CentOS in Qubes Broken?

[Mike Karasoff]

Hi,

I'm trying to install the CentOS template, and cannot.  I failed both with getting the community template and trying to build one with qubes-builder.  I'm using Qubes V4.0.  I've had no trouble building Debian based templates (bionic, buster). 

First, I tried to get the community template using the instructions from the docs here:  https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/centos/

The result was:

[user@dom0 ~]$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community qubes-template-centos-7

Using sys-firewall as UpdateVM to download updates for Dom0; this may take some time...

Last metadata expiration check: 22:12:59 ago on Thu Jan 30 17:43:53 2020.

No match for argument: qubes-template-centos-7

Error: Unable to find a match

Has the centos template been removed?  Are there any pointers on how to search the qubes-templates-community repo?  I can't seem to find any links to that repo.

I then tried to building the template with qubes-builder, and failed during make-template:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Error: Package: qubes-core-agent-4.0.52-1.centos7.x86_64 (template-builder-repo)

           Requires: python3-daemon

Error: Package: qubes-core-agent-4.0.52-1.centos7.x86_64 (template-builder-repo)

           Requires: python3-dbus

Error: Package: qubes-vm-recommended-4.0.6-1.centos7.noarch (template-builder-repo)

           Requires: thunderbird-qubes

Error: Package: qubes-core-agent-4.0.52-1.centos7.x86_64 (template-builder-repo)

           Requires: python3-pyxdg

You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

make[1]: *** [Makefile:64: rootimg-build] Error 1

Am I doing something wrong here?  I don't know enough about what is going on in this build process, but this feels like some packages aren't getting installed properly at some point upstream.

Has support for CentOS in Qubes been discontinued or broken in a recent update? 

Is this a bug?  It is not clear to me where I should report the bug - community or Qubes.

Thanks,

Mike

[Foppe de Haan]

there are a few prebuilt templates to pick from in https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-community-testing/rpm/

[Frédéric Pierret]

Hi,

We have not put yes centos-7 in stable repository but soon!

You can get it by enabling qubes-templates-community-testing:

--enablerepo=qubes-templates-community-testing

Best,

Frédéric

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[Mike Karasoff]

Hi,

Thank you.  This works.  It is very helpful.  

I put in request for wiki update through git.

Mike

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