Instructions to install Aegir from git since Debian PGP key has expired - Debian packages are no longer supported

Is there a packages10inc file that would allow us to install Drupal 10 sites?

@SocialNicheGuru: I think those last two comments/issues are not directly linked to the issue here (git install/upgrade), but issues with provision. For what it's worth, I'm on MariaDB 10.5 and did not notice any issues. I haven't used D10 yet.

@bgm. I think you might be correct.

It was just during a migration.

One went without an issue.

The other had those two come up.

I am just noting them and will move to other issues.

How do I do hostmater install

At Step 6. I did drush hostmaster-install which seemed to work.
But it did not use the copy of hostmaster from step 4.
Instead it created it's own hostmaster-7.x-3.x directory.

Installing from git repository is the recommended way moving forward.

@bgm thanks very much for the details in #7. Using that I've successfully migrated from /var/aegir/hostmaster-7.x-3.192 to /var/aegir/hostmaster

Attached is the patch I used for hostmaster that bumps the contrib modules up to their latest stable versions. Note that building hostmaster with drush make already bumps core to the latest stable (7.98).

To apply the patch, before running drush make edit /var/aegir/.drush/provision/aegir.make to get it to apply the patch:

diff --git a/aegir.make b/aegir.make
index d1357cc8..75d2c18f 100644
--- a/aegir.make
+++ b/aegir.make
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ projects[hostmaster][type] = "profile"
 projects[hostmaster][download][type] = "git"
 projects[hostmaster][download][url] = "http://git.drupal.org/project/hostmaster.git"
 projects[hostmaster][download][branch] = "7.x-3.x"
+projects[hostmaster][patch][3317637] = "3317637-21.patch"

Running drush make /var/aegir/.drush/provision/aegir.make /var/aegir/hostmaster will then use the latest contrib modules.

Next step for me is to bump from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.2. I'll report back if there's any issues.

@fenstrat did you make it to PHP 8.2?

@Steven Jones yes I did, everything mostly worked from memory. Needed a couple additional patches, some of which you've committed, thanks!

More to the point though Aegir 3 seems pretty much at a dead end, as you well know. Especially when I was looking at this ~ 6 months ago. As we needed Drupal 10 support we've had to migrate off Aegir. Thankfully replacing its platform migration (the essential bit of Aegir for us) with custom code that did what we needed was relatively straight forward.

I kind of have D10 and PHP 8.2 working on Aegir, if anyone's interested. I'm not sure if it will be useful to many people though. I basically started from the omega8 provision fork, but then removed a lot of things I didn't use and were causing issues, and replaced drush PHP calls by shell calls (which is what I do for WordPress support, and what I think provision4 did). That way multiple drush versions can co-exist on the system. It breaks a lot of Aegir things though. Install and backup works, limited testing for clone/migrate, and I still have an annoying issue with 'verify' wiping out some settings. I hope to fix the verify bug and post a blog post in 2-3 weeks.