It sounds like this new RHEL8 feature, modularity:

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modularity.html#hotfix-repositories

It looks like it could be disabled with module_hotfixes=true in the repo config file, but I don’t see any way of passing this to the kickstart repo command.

I expect there will need to be some investigation of the differences in the installation of centos8 vs centos7, maybe look at the stock installation media to look at how the software repositories are setup. The introduction of modularity and “AppStream” could necessitate some changes in how we setup our ISO and software repositories.

From: Bai, Haiqing <Haiqing.Bai@windriver.com>
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 3:45 AM
To: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io
Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] [CentOS8] build-pkgs/build-iso completed successfully, but installer reports dependency issues

Hi,  all:

         Is there anyone knows why “build-pkgs” and “build-iso” completed successfully and bootimage.iso created,  but the target installer has below errors:

(I have checked that “python36” and “python36-devel” are in dist/comps.xml  and the type is “mandatory” of group ID “platform-controller”, “platform-controller-worker”, “platform-controller-worker-lowlatency”,

and the kickstarts cfg files include the related group in “%packages” ).    Thanks.

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Error

The following software marked for installation has errors.  This is likely 

caused by an error with

your installation source.

Problem 1: package patch-alarm-1.0-2.tis.x86_64 requires python3-devel, but

none of the providers can be installed

  - conflicting requests

  - package python36-devel-3.6.8-2.module_el8.1.0+245+c39af44f.x86_64 is

excluded

Problem 2: package grubby-8.40-34.el8.tis.1.x86_64 requires python3-devel, but

none of the providers can be installed

  - conflicting requests

  - package python36-devel-3.6.8-2.module_el8.1.0+245+c39af44f.x86_64 is

excluded

Problem 3: package cgcs-patch-1.0-28.tis.x86_64 requires python3-devel, but

none of the providers can be installed

  - conflicting requests

  - package python36-devel-3.6.8-2.module_el8.1.0+245+c39af44f.x86_64 is

excluded

Problem 4: package worker-utils-1.0-5.tis.x86_64 requires /usr/bin/python3, but

none of the providers can be installed

  - package worker-utils-1.0-5.tis.x86_64 requires python3, but none of the

providers can be installed

  - conflicting requests

  - package python36-3.6.8-2.module_el8.1.0+245+c39af44f.x86_64 is excluded

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