modular packages

[ezbik]

Some packages are modular ( e.g. httpd-2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463.x86_64.rpm).
Modular packages DO require some extra steps to create the repo:

    createrepo -g "${uc}" . 2>&1 | cmdot
+
+   repo2module  -s stable -d . modules.yaml
+   modifyrepo_c --mdtype=modules modules.yaml repodata/
+
    cmcheck

& beforehand repo2module should be installed:

yum -y install yum-utils createrepo
yum -y install libmodulemd 
pip3 install  repo2module 
ln -s ~/.local/bin/repo2module  /usr/local/bin/

[zohkoo]

I also added these lines to my script two mounths ago in order to get rid of an error about modular packages metadata during install. It worked well.

However, when I wanted to upgrade CentOS 8.1 to CentOS 8.2, I found a lot of missing dependencies. After some hours of research, I found that it was due to the modular installation repo which was obviously not accessible anymore and was filtering some packages.

I was able to see this missing modular repo with the command dnf module list --all

See DNF documentation for signification of @modulefailsafe

I had to reset the module with the command dnf module reset BaseOS to be able to upgrade the system correctly.

I still didn't find the right way to deal with this issue directly in the ISO generation script.