Bug 1993287

Summary:	borgbackup-1.1.17-1.el8.x86_64 can't be installed on CentOS 8
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Tim Meusel <tim>
Component:	borgbackup	Assignee:	Felix Schwarz <fschwarz>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel8	CC:	fschwarz, ricardo.arguello, thomas
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Description Tim Meusel 2021-08-12 17:00:38 UTC

Description of problem:

During the installation of borgbackup I get the following error:

Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides python3.6dist(packaging) needed by borgbackup-1.1.17-1.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 8.4.2105
[root@localhost ~]#

How reproducible:
Try to install borgbackup


Steps to Reproduce:
1. vagrant init centos/8
2. vagrant up && vagrant ssh
3. sudo -i
4. dnf update && dnf install epel-release && dnf install borgbackup

Actual results:
Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides python3.6dist(packaging) needed by borgbackup-1.1.17-1.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

Expected results:

I expect that I can install borgbackup

Additional info:

Comment 1 Felix Schwarz 2021-08-12 19:25:19 UTC

You need to enable the "PowerTools" repository:

 $ config-manager --set-enabled powertools

See also: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#Quickstart

Unfortunately there is not much we can do about this. Basically Red Hat decided not to ship some packages in the default channels and CentOS decided not to enable PowerTools by default (I think Rocky Linux + Alma Linux do).

Does that solve the problem for you?

Comment 2 Tim Meusel 2021-08-13 06:44:52 UTC

Hi,
thanks for the quick reply. I need to see how I can implement this in puppet. For previous borgbackup releases it was possible to just install it, without the powertools repo.

Comment 3 Felix Schwarz 2021-08-13 07:20:45 UTC

Yeah, borgbackup grew a new dependency which is only available via PowerTools unfortunately. Enabling the PowerTools repo should be pretty straight-forward though.

Comment 4 Felix Schwarz 2021-08-19 06:27:46 UTC

*** Bug 1995252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***