RHEL 10 / AlmaLinux 10 : Ansible ? X.org?

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Hi,

I’m currently running AlmaLinux 8.x and 9.x (besides Rocky Linux 8.x and 9.x).

I’m slowly starting to experiment with the 10.0 release. For now I have two questions.

  1. Where’s Ansible ? On 8.x and 9.x I just use EPEL and then dnf install ansible which pulls in an out of the box usable installation of Ansible. There seems to be no equivalent in 10.0. Does that mean the EPEL project still has to wrap its head around it and build it? Or do things work differently under 10.0 ?

  2. What about X.org ? I understand Red Hat has decided to go for Wayland as default. Will X.org and related packages still be available from some third party project under 10.0 ?

Cheers,

Niki

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The core parts of Ansible are in package ansible-core in AppStream of el8, el9, and el10.

What EPEL adds is collections. Yes, some of them are likely to be used by common tasks. Both EPEL 10.0 and 10.1 do have ansible-collection-community-general

Technically, it is possible to download collections with ansible-galaxy, but that is obviously a “source install”.

EPEL can be requested to (re)build more collections for el10 target.

X11 is some four decades old. Two decades ago somebody deemed that it is easier to write from scratch than duct-tape X11. That “new” thing is Wayland. Wayland does have XWayland, so X11 applications ought to be happy with it. Ideally, focus would be on making everything (Wayland implementation, GPU drivers, applications) work with Wayland.

The el9 will be here to 2032.

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JFI and add your wish there: 2308951 – [RFE:EPEL10] Please branch and build ansible for EPEL10

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I just jumped into 10.0 x86_64_v2 last week…
And though I do NOT know how Wayland works, I figured out that if you install all (or most) of the kde-plasma-wayland packages, and create a startup script (I made a /usr/local/bin/start-plasma one), it actually works…
AND, I have all of my previous KDE icons and apps (except for those that have not been recompiled and repackaged for V2 yet) available…
Along with all of the KDE features (i.e. ‘wobbly’ windows, ‘transparent windows’, ‘multiple workspaces’, etc)…

Here’s the startup script that I’m using:

#/bin/ksh
#
# Script to start KDE-Plasma using the Wayland display server
#

# If the DISPLAY environment variable is defined, the startup will assume "X", and fail..
unset -v DISPLAY

export DESKTOP_SESSION=plasma
exec /usr/bin/dbus-launch startplasma-wayland
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EEEK ! The 1st line should be:

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Does it have to be a Korn shell script? Surely Bash would get the job done too.

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Any SHELL should do it (since I had the incorrect syntax on the 1st line, it might well had been BASH that was executing it…)

BUT, being one of the ‘children of the Korn SHELL’, it’s my preference, and since ‘my’ scripts (not this one) use to be executed across multiple UNIXii O/S’s, Korn SHELL was the common one amongst all of them…

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