Powershell: New RPM package doesn't work for AmazonLinux

Created on 6 Oct 2017 · 7Comments · Source: PowerShell/PowerShell

We have a dockerfile for AmazonLinux (docker/release/amazonlinux), and I found this when validating docker files. It turns out that AmazonLinux doesn't have the package openssl-libs.

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Could we document PowerShell Core package dependences to help users to install PowerShell on unsupported distributives?

iSazonov on 6 Oct 2017

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@SteveL-MSFT Amazon Linux is not an officially supported distro for .NET Core 2.0 (see https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/2.0/2.0-supported-os.md#linux). Do we need to support it?

daxian-dbw on 6 Oct 2017

No, it's not one we officially support either.

SteveL-MSFT on 6 Oct 2017

OK, I will remove the dockerfile then.

daxian-dbw on 6 Oct 2017

Could we document PowerShell Core package dependences to help users to install PowerShell on unsupported distributives?

iSazonov on 6 Oct 2017

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Hello @SteveL-MSFT and @daxian-dbw just hit this issue myself on AWS linux, this was working fine a few days ago. do you have any recommendations to address the dependency issue of openssl-libs ? i realy realy realy dont want to change to a different distro so any help to get this working again would be awesome. (PS support AWS linux ;) )

r2690698 on 10 Oct 2017

@r2690698 just to be clear, I want to enable running PSCore6 on as many systems/devices as possible, but we can only officially support what dotnetcore supports. For other platforms, we'll make a best effort (community support like for ArchLinux is always appreciated!).

SteveL-MSFT on 10 Oct 2017

The powershell package dependencies are the same as those of dotnet-runtime-2.0.0 packages (DEB, RPM) (available at here). You can find the dependencies in the PR description of #4902. Or better, look at the source of truth in New-UnixPackage from packaging.psm1.

The RPM package of dotnet-runtime-2.0.0 depends on openssl-libs and thus cannot be installed through yum install on Amazon Linux.
However, the dotnet team provide a .tar.gz package of dotnet-runtime-2.0.0 for users to deploy (see https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/930), similar to the .zip package for windows. I think powershell should also provide a .tar.gz package for users to deploy powershell core on not officially supported distros. I will add this task to #3961.