[BIGTOP-3371] Unable to build Apache Ambari on RHEL8

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0

Environment

RHEL8

• Assignee: Kengo Seki
• Reporter: Masahiro Tanaka
• Created: 17/Jun/20 03:31
• Updated: 14/Aug/20 15:47
• Resolved: 14/Aug/20 15:47

Description

I tested this behavior on RHEL8, but I think it also occurs on CentOS8.
 

$ ./gradlew ambari-pkg
(snip)
[INFO]
[INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:exec (azuredb-gen) @ ambari-server ---
/usr/bin/env: 'python': No such file or directory
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO]
[INFO] Ambari Main 2.6.1.0.0 .............................. SUCCESS [  1.210 s]
[INFO] Apache Ambari Project POM .......................... SUCCESS [  0.009 s]
[INFO] Ambari Web ......................................... SUCCESS [ 34.205 s]
[INFO] Ambari Views ....................................... SUCCESS [  0.908 s]
[INFO] Ambari Admin View .................................. SUCCESS [ 50.908 s]
[INFO] utility 1.0.0.0-SNAPSHOT ........................... SUCCESS [  0.169 s]
[INFO] ambari-metrics ..................................... SUCCESS [  0.359 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Common .............................. SUCCESS [  3.941 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Hadoop Sink ......................... SUCCESS [  2.036 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Flume Sink .......................... SUCCESS [  1.445 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Kafka Sink .......................... SUCCESS [  1.339 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Storm Sink .......................... SUCCESS [  2.205 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Storm Sink (Legacy) ................. SUCCESS [  1.692 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Collector ........................... SUCCESS [ 10.385 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Monitor ............................. SUCCESS [  0.999 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Grafana 2.1.0.0.0 ................... SUCCESS [  5.278 s]
[INFO] Ambari Metrics Assembly ............................ SUCCESS [01:03 min]
[INFO] Ambari Server ...................................... FAILURE [  0.727 s]
[INFO] Ambari Functional Tests ............................ SKIPPED
(snip)

Note: by default, we have no python command on RHEL8/CentOS8 anymore.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel-8/

Issue Links

• is caused by: AMBARI-25528 Unable to build Ambari Server on RHEL8 due to lack of python command
• links to: https://github.com/apache/bigtop/pull/656