Prep OnDemand 4.1 dependencies

[treydock]

• Upgrade NodeJS from 20 to 22
• Upgrade Passenger from 6.0.23 to 6.1.0
• Upgrade NGINX from 1.23.1 to 1.23.3
• Upgrade Dex from 2.41.1 to 2.44.0

[treydock]

@johrstrom Seems the built-in npm node-gyp is maybe causing issues with the Python version for some operating systems. That's somewhat strange since both come from the OS. However the syntax error on := looks like it needs at least Python 3.8 and the default Python 3 for RHEL8 is Python 3.6. Not sure what version of node-gyp OnDemand wants to use or if it doesn't depend on that but the version in npm for NodeJS 22 on RHEL8 is 11.2.0.

[johrstrom]

It's a native nodejs package. Seems like there are some toggles like the environment variable npm_config_python, PYTHON or NODE_GYP_FORCE_PYTHON.

https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp

node-pty uses it to build but I can't tell from that repo if there's anything we can toggle.

[treydock]

@johrstrom I managed to get EL8 to work by upgrading to Python 3.12. The options to get 3.8+ was either 3.11 or 3.12 and 3.12 is good till the EOL of the entire EL8 OS rather than 3.11 which is EOL in a year.

[johrstrom]

Is BuildRequires not enough? Do we really need 3.12 at runtime?

[johrstrom]

@treydock is BuildRequires not enough? Do we really need 3.12 at runtime?

[treydock]

I don't know, I figured if node-gyp needs Python 3.12 at build time, won't it need it at runtime too or is that not what node-gyp does?

[johrstrom]

I believe it's used during the build to compile C++ .so files. Once those are built, I don't think it needs it. Or at least this is what I think. I can try to find what those .so files link to, but if anything, I'd imagine they link to nodejs libraries, not python.

[treydock]

Updated to just do BuildRequires for Python 3.12 on RHEL8

[johrstrom]

Thanks! let's see how it fares as a nightly in dev anyhow. I could be wrong.

[treydock]

EL9 builds are consistently failing, not clear what's going on

[treydock]

** Invoke install:infrastructure:files (first_time)
** Execute install:infrastructure:files
rake aborted!
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - /tmp/sudo.erb20251017-8084-d7c1c9 (Errno::ENOENT)
/usr/share/ruby/fileutils.rb:2278:in `initialize'
/usr/share/ruby/fileutils.rb:2278:in `open'
/usr/share/ruby/fileutils.rb:2278:in `copy_file'

Like the sudo ERB is not working now.

[johrstrom]

I just synced UCR, so we should see this in our nightlies tomorrow.

[treydock]

@johrstrom , We need a 4.1.0-0.1start1 type tag to get nightlies to build as 4.1. Or we can change how nightlies generate their tag but right now it's based on most recent git tag.

[johrstrom]

@johrstrom , We need a 4.1.0-0.1start1

OK, we can tag a start tag today.

[treydock]

@johrstrom Let me know when the start tag is created.

[johrstrom]

@johrstrom Let me know when the start tag is created.

🤦‍♂️ I've forgotten about this, but I'll have @Bubballoo3 create a tag today.