Bug 2128674

Summary:	Problem: package libknet1-compress-bzip2-plugin-1.24-3.el8.x86_64 requires libknet1(x86-64) = 1.22-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Benedikt Steinbusch <b.steinbusch>
Component:	kronosnet-epel	Assignee:	Davide Cavalca <davide>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	epel8	CC:	brian, davide, soutteri
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Description Benedikt Steinbusch 2022-09-21 11:26:23 UTC

Description of problem:
EL8 repositories now have libknet1-1.22-2.el8_6.x86_64, but kronosnet-epel depends on libknet1-1.22-1.el8.x86_64

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.24-3.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have libknet1-compress-bzip2-plugin-1.24-3.el8.x86_64 installed
2. Run dnf upgrade

Actual results:
Error: 
 Problem: package libknet1-compress-bzip2-plugin-1.24-3.el8.x86_64 requires libknet1(x86-64) = 1.22-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both libknet1-1.22-2.el8_6.x86_64 and libknet1-1.22-1.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install both libknet1-1.22-1.el8.x86_64 and libknet1-1.22-2.el8_6.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package libknet1-compress-bzip2-plugin-1.22-1.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package libknet1-1.22-1.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

Expected results:
Successful upgrade

Additional info:

Comment 1 Benedikt Steinbusch 2022-09-21 11:38:54 UTC

It might make sense to relax the Requires: clause to not depend on the exact version and release of libknet1.

Comment 2 Davide Cavalca 2022-09-21 15:16:10 UTC

So this is an interesting corner case. It looks like RHEL 8 put out a kronosnet-1.22-2.el8_6 build, per https://git.centos.org/rpms/kronosnet/c/2c21a86adf571665437e2779f1f618e0bffd6231?branch=c8, but there's no corresponding build in Koji (https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=874) and CentOS Stream 8 is at kronosnet-1.24-2.el8 (https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=22468). We already have a package tracking 1.24-2.el8 in the epel8-next branch for Stream, so I think I'll just need to make another epel8 build adjusting the dependency for RHEL 8. And then if/when RHEL 8 catches up to CentOS Stream 8, merge epel8-next into epel8 and do another build.

I don't think relaxing the Requires: would be appropriate as this package needs to be built from the exact same sources as the RHEL / CentOS Stream one to ensure compatibility.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2022-09-21 16:05:06 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-a7d574296e has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-a7d574296e

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2022-09-22 02:44:54 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-a7d574296e has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-a7d574296e

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2022-09-30 02:39:57 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-a7d574296e has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.