[IMPALA-12863] Toolchain build containers fail to be constructed for SLES and CentOS 7

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 4.4.0
• Fix Version/s: Not Applicable
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Epic Color: ghx-label-9
• Assignee: Laszlo Gaal
• Reporter: Laszlo Gaal
• Created: 01/Mar/24 21:08
• Updated: 06/Mar/24 20:53
• Resolved: 06/Mar/24 20:53

Description

The container build code that provides the basic environment for toolchain builds targeting various OS platforms seems to have become outdate for a few platform. Current build attempts exhibit the following problems:

• SLES12 SP3 has reached end-of-life in June 2023 (i.e. last year)
• SLES15 SP4 cannot install libncurses-devel because of a version conflict with the libncurses runtime lib
• CentOS 8 cannot download Maven during the post-install phase, because the Apache Archive repo (where the download is attempted from) presents a TLS certificate chain issued by a root CA is "too new", i.e. still unknown for the CentOS 7.4 base container.

These problems prevent a full container set from being built.