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-rw-r--r--scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/build-environment.yml2
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure1
-rw-r--r--scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml14
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/build-environment.yml b/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/build-environment.yml
index b1768d18af..0d094d70c3 100644
--- a/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/build-environment.yml
+++ b/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/build-environment.yml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
           - nmap-ncat
           - numactl-devel
           - pixman-devel
-          - python36
+          - python38
           - python3-sphinx
           - rdma-core-devel
           - redhat-rpm-config
diff --git a/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure b/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure
index 75882faa9c..65eacf3c56 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure
+++ b/scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 # that patches adding downstream specific devices are not available.
 #
 ../configure \
+--python=/usr/bin/python3.8 \
 --prefix="/usr" \
 --libdir="/usr/lib64" \
 --datadir="/usr/share" \
diff --git a/scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml b/scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml
index 2274f736f7..78b1021cd4 100644
--- a/scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml
+++ b/scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
           - nmap-ncat
           - numactl-devel
           - pixman-devel
-          - python36
+          - python38
           - python3-sphinx
           - rdma-core-devel
           - redhat-rpm-config
@@ -217,3 +217,15 @@
         - ansible_facts['distribution_file_variety'] in ['RedHat', 'CentOS']
         - ansible_facts['distribution_version'] == '8'
         - ansible_facts['architecture'] == 'aarch64' or ansible_facts['architecture'] == 'x86_64'
+
+    - name: Check whether the Python runtime version is managed by alternatives
+      stat:
+        path: /etc/alternatives/python3
+      register: python3
+
+    - name: Set default Python runtime to 3.8 on EL8
+      command: alternatives --set python3 /usr/bin/python3.8
+      when:
+        - ansible_facts['distribution_file_variety'] in ['RedHat', 'CentOS']
+        - ansible_facts['distribution_version'] == '8'
+        - python3.stat.islnk and python3.stat.lnk_target != '/usr/bin/python3.8'