[BlueOnyx:25357] Re: Aventurine Template for Onyx 5210R issues.

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Raymond,

> Is there a way to blow the template away and re-fetch it?  I am 
> completely unable to build a 5210 VPS but 5209s build fine and I can 
> only suspect the template.
> 
> Thoughts?  "Update" in the gui does nothing with the 5210 template but 
> will update the 5209 template.  I suppose I could deploy AlmaLinux8 and 
> do a manual install but that is a bit suboptimal. ;)

There were indeed a couple of issues that got reported to me two days 
ago and I fixed them in between.

A recent update of the OS template building tools from OpenVZ broke the 
YUM that is used to roll up EL8 based OS templates. It can no longer use 
HTTPS mirrors and the AlmaLinux 8 and BlueOnyx 5210R OS template configs 
had HTTPS mirrors in their config.

So I published updated RPMs that contain revised template caches:

almalinux-8-x86_64-ez-1.0.1-1BX01.vl7.noarch.rpm
blueonyx-5210R-x86_64-ez-7.0.0-5.vl7.noarch.rpm

Do a "yum clean all" and "yup update" on your Aventurin{e} to be sure to 
have the latest caches installed.

Then run this command on the node to force a complete rebuild from 
scratch of the 5210R template:

vzpkg create cache blueonyx-5210R-x86_64 -f

Note the "-f" at the end, which forces a rebuild instead of attempting 
an update an older cache that may already present.

You will receive detailed status and progress reports on the console and 
should this run into any errors or issues, it'll tell you where it went 
wrong.

If the command fails, then please report back with the error messages 
and I'd be glad to assist further.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber