Almalinux8 132.00stable with PHP 8.3 : MariaDB mirror issue + missing libffi-devel

Hello !

My brand new installation (couple hours ago) at Hetzner went south, here is what I found in the logs:

Fresh AlmaLinux 8.10 install (132.00stable.b185) — 2 install-breaking issues

Just did a clean CentminMod install on AlmaLinux 8.10 and hit two separate failures. Logs checked in /root/centminlogs/. Posting in case others hit the same.

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1. MariaDB never installs — yum.mariadb.org repo returns 404
   
   The generated /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo points at baseurl = https://yum.mariadb.org/10.6/centos8-amd64, which redirects to mirror.mariadb.org, and that path 404s:
   
   
   Code:

   Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘mariadb’:
   
   * Status code: 404 for https://mirror.mariadb.org/yum/10.6/centos8-amd64/repodata/repomd.xml
       Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘mariadb’: Cannot download repomd.xml
       

   Verified live with curl — same 404 on both 10.6 and 10.11 paths. Looks like MariaDB’s own mirror infra for this repo layout is down/moved, not a local config typo.
   
   Result: no mariadb-server package, no mysql binary, service never existed (hence the empty *_mariadb-server-failed-startup.log — nothing ever started to log).
   
2. PHP compile fails — missing libffi-devel
   
   PHP’s ./configure aborts here:
   
   
   Code:

   checking for FFI support… yes
   checking for libffi >= 3.0.11… no
   configure: error: Package requirements (libffi >= 3.0.11) were not met:
   Package ‘libffi’, required by ‘virtual:world’, not found
   

   Box has the runtime libffi-3.1-24.el8 but not libffi-devel. Since configure dies, no Makefile is generated, so the whole PHP build (and everything downstream: php-fpm, memcached PECL ext, etc.) fails in a chain reaction.

I suppose @eva2000 had a really good reason to hardcode the MariaDB link and no clue why my almalinux is missing a library (maybe it's hetzner almalinux image?).

Have a good day and thanks for the work on CMM, it almost always installs flawlessly !

 

Not too sure but maybe the mariaDB (for almalinux8) should be this URL nowadays(?):

Index of /yum/10.6/almalinux8-amd64/

Also it looks like the libffi-devel issue is actually a consequence of the "moved" repo error.