Bug 2071639

Summary:	rebuild hwinfo 21.80-2 against libx86emu 3.5-1 for EPEL8
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	roel.derooy
Component:	hwinfo	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel8	CC:	andrewponomarenko, carl, lkundrak, martinrushton56, ngompa13
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Description roel.derooy 2022-04-04 12:43:24 UTC

Description of problem:

Unable to install hwinfo through the EPEL8 repository at the moment.
Looking at the build root log, it was build against the previous version of libx86emu (1.11-10), instead of the latest version 3.5-1.

Libx86emu 3.5-1 has libx86emu.so.3()(64-bit), instead of libx86emu.so.1()(64bit), so package install will fail with a 'conflicting requests' error.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

hwinfo-21.80-2.el8


How reproducible:

each time


Steps to Reproduce:

dnf install hwinfo
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
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Error: 
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides libx86emu.so.1()(64bit) needed by hwinfo-21.80-2.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)


Actual results:

unable to install hwinfo package


Expected results:

hwinfo package install without error


Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2022-04-04 22:04:57 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-9abf798346 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-9abf798346

Comment 2 Carl George 🤠 2022-04-04 22:11:08 UTC

This was caused by an unannounced soname increase in libx86emu-3.5-1.el8 [0].  That kind of update is not normally allowed by EPEL policy [1].  The maintainer should have followed the incompatible upgrades policy [2].

It looks like hwinfo is the only affected package, and the damage is already done, so rather than reverting this update I've forced a rebuild of hwinfo to link against the new soname.  Note that I'm not the hwinfo maintainer, I'm just jumping in to assist for this one thing.  That update [3] is on its way to epel-testing.


[0] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-c1b36337e0
[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy/
[2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-incompatible-upgrades/
[3] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-9abf798346

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2022-04-05 01:11:44 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-9abf798346 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.