Bug 2041677

Summary:	when I run dnf it complains "nothing provides module(perl:5.26)" about several perl packages
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	perl-maint-list
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	RHEL CS Apps Subsystem QE <rhel-cs-apps-subsystem-qe>
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Version:	CentOS Stream	CC:	bstinson, jplesnik, jwboyer
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2022-01-18 05:32:07 UTC

dnf regularly complains:

 Problem 1: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-App-cpanminus:1.7044:8030020200723233049:09acf126.x86_64
 Problem 2: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBD-MySQL:4.046:8030020200716171139:3a70019f.x86_64
 Problem 3: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBI:1.641:8030020200716150652:1e4bbb35.x86_64
 Problem 4: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-FCGI:0.78:8030020200618214557:1e4bbb35.x86_64
 Problem 5: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-IO-Socket-SSL:2.066:8040020200924212038:1aedcbfe.x86_64
 Problem 6: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-YAML:1.24:8050020211111222949:28ca5b4a.x86_64
 Problem 7: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-libwww-perl:6.34:8040020211102170116:bf75fe78.x86_64

This seems similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772953, but that claims to have been fixed long ago, so :shrug:.

This is happening after upgrading from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8.

Comment 1 Jitka Plesnikova 2022-01-18 07:56:08 UTC

Could you please provide output of 'yum module list perl' and version of CentOS which you use?

Comment 2 Jonathan Kamens 2022-01-22 17:56:20 UTC

jik4:~!1135# yum module list perl
enabling epel-debuginfo repository
enabling epel-modular-debuginfo repository
Last metadata expiration check: 2:28:19 ago on Sat 22 Jan 2022 10:27:15 AM EST.
CentOS Stream 8 - AppStream
Name  Stream    Profiles            Summary
perl  5.24      common [d], minimal Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl  5.26 [d]  common [d], minimal Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl  5.30      common [d], minimal Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl  5.32      common [d], minimal Practical Extraction and Report Language

Hint: [d]efault, [e]nabled, [x]disabled, [i]nstalled
jik4:~!1136# cat /etc/centos-release 
CentOS Stream release 8
jik4:~!1137#

Comment 3 Jitka Plesnikova 2022-01-23 19:42:22 UTC

The exact version of CentOS will be useful. Please send me output from:

rpm -qf /etc/centos-release
rpm -qa dnf

Comment 4 Jonathan Kamens 2022-01-27 02:51:08 UTC

I am not longer able to reproduce this issue. I don't know what was going on before.

I.e., I was unable to find a dnf command tonight which, when I ran it, produced the error output above. I honestly don't remember what commands previously produced that output; I didn't make note of it since it was happening so often that I just assumed it was every command, but I'm not sure what was true.

I just successfully did "dnf module install perl:5.26", but to be clear, even before I did that tonight I was unable to reproduce the issue. :shrug:

Here's the information you asked for just in case it is still useful:

jik4:/var/lib!1227# rpm -qf /etc/centos-release
centos-stream-release-8.6-1.el8.noarch
jik4:/var/lib!1228# rpm -qa dnf
dnf-4.7.0-5.el8.noarch
jik4:/var/lib!1229# 

It may be relevant that centos-stream-repos was updated after I filed this issue:

Name        : centos-stream-repos
Version     : 8
Release     : 4.el8
Architecture: noarch
Install Date: Sun 23 Jan 2022 04:05:02 PM EST

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2023-07-18 07:28:19 UTC

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.