Rocky Linux support

[František Slimařík]

Hello,

I was thinking about migration from my old Centos7 to something newer. After checking articles about "future of Centos" I decided to migrate to Rocky Linux, but I didn´t see it in supported OS in article weewx: Installation on Redhat systems. Did anybody test it already on this OS?

Thanks for answer.

[Vince Skahan]

I've run it on both Almalinux and Rocky Linux.   Anything based on RHEL works.

[Andrew Bauer (Andy)]

I've been running Weewx 4.8.0 rpm on Rocky Linux 8 for a while now. Runs well.

I am testing weewx on Rocky Linux 9 and put up an experimental el9 weewx package here:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kni/weewx-el9/

However, I have run into an issue with the SDR driver on el9. Maybe has to do with the newer Python. Not sure yet. Before I go any further, I've ordered a second sdr radio, so I don't have to take down my production system to test.

[Andrew Bauer (Andy)]

UPDATE:

Turns out the issue was unrelated to the SDR module. I was simply missing python3-cheetah and python3-ephem packages.

I'm going to have to bug the rpm package maintainer for python3-ephem as it isn't in EPEL 9 repos yet. For now, I've added the package to the copr repo I linked earlier.

I've got weewx  w/ SDR and MQTT modules up and running on Rocky Linux 9. I'll continue to monitor it, but it seems to be running well!