Installing sshfs fails on CentOS

[afbjorklund]

[   38.495119] cloud-init[1376]: + dnf install -y fuse-sshfs
[   39.845344] cloud-init[1376]: CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                       13 MB/s | 9.3 MB     00:00
[   42.306361] cloud-init[1376]: CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                         9.6 MB/s | 7.5 MB     00:00
[   44.128504] cloud-init[1376]: CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                          21 kB/s |  10 kB     00:00
[   44.950542] cloud-init[1376]: No match for argument: fuse-sshfs
[   44.973079] cloud-init[1376]: Error: Unable to find a match: fuse-sshfs

Apparently you need to enable "PowerTools", in order to have sshfs...

https://centos.pkgs.org/8/centos-powertools-x86_64/fuse-sshfs-2.8-5.el8.x86_64.rpm.html

And probably should use "yum" rather than "dnf", on this distribution ?

# yum --enablerepo powertools install -y fuse-sshfs
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                                                                                              2.6 MB/s | 2.4 MB     00:00    
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Mon 18 Oct 2021 03:43:59 PM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
=========================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                  Architecture                         Version                                    Repository                                Size
=========================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 fuse-sshfs                               x86_64                               2.8-5.el8                                  powertools                                56 k
Installing dependencies:
 fuse                                     x86_64                               2.9.7-12.el8                               baseos                                    82 k

Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================================================================================================
Install  2 Packages

[afbjorklund]

For the legacy CentOS 7 (from 2014) it was not available in the distribution at all, so one had to use EPEL packages.

https://centos.pkgs.org/7/epel-x86_64/fuse-sshfs-2.10-1.el7.x86_64.rpm.html

[afbjorklund]

Both "yum" and "dnf" (yum4) link to the same /usr/bin/dnf-3, so I guess it is mostly a question of backwards compatibility

bash: dnf: command not found

[afbjorklund]

It (fuse-sshfs) is not available as an RPM for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so that is (ironically enough) unsupported for now...

It can probably be built from source, if desired: fuse-sshfs-2.8-5.fc28.src.rpm. And the result put in an accessible dnf repo.

[jeffguorg]

Alma Linux 9 beta is already released. RHEL9 is released and Rocky Linux 9 is expected to be released in a few month.

I found EL's official base repos does not contain sshfs any more. Instead there is a fuse-sshfs in epel-release of every el version:

[root@lima-cs9 lima-cidata]# dnf info fuse-sshfs
Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:33 ago on Thu 12 May 2022 04:11:46 AM EDT.
Installed Packages
Name         : fuse-sshfs
Version      : 3.7.2
Release      : 2.el9
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 123 k
Source       : fuse-sshfs-3.7.2-2.el9.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : epel
Summary      : FUSE-Filesystem to access remote filesystems via SSH
URL          : https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
License      : GPLv2
Description  : This is a FUSE-filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol.
             : Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set
             : up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do.  On the client side
             : mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh.

Should we rely on epel-release for sshfs?

If so, we'd better install epel-release package before we install any pkgs:

lima/pkg/cidata/cidata.TEMPLATE.d/boot/30-install-packages.sh

Lines 63 to 72 in 234a65c

	if [ -n "${pkgs}" ]; then
	dnf_install_flags="-y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False"
	if grep -q "Oracle Linux Server release 8" /etc/system-release; then
	# repo flag instead of enable repo to reduce metadata syncing on slow Oracle repos
	dnf_install_flags="${dnf_install_flags} --repo ol8_baseos_latest --repo ol8_codeready_builder"
	elif grep -q "release 8" /etc/system-release; then
	dnf_install_flags="${dnf_install_flags} --enablerepo powertools"
	fi
	# shellcheck disable=SC2086
	dnf install ${dnf_install_flags} ${pkgs}

@afbjorklund @AkihiroSuda

[AkihiroSuda]

Yes, we should use EPEL

[afbjorklund]

I think the "PowerTools" and the "EPEL", were both built from the same original Fedora SRPM ?

Ironically, the package for EL7 was newer than the one for EL8 - since it was actually bumped...

* Wed Aug 15 2018 Michael Cronenworth <[email protected]> - 2.10-1
- Ver. 2.10 - last 2.x release

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 2.8-6
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 2.8-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

fuse-sshfs-2.8-5.fc28.src.rpm