Re: [HTCondor-users] Broken rpm dependencies hamper installation of older 9.0.x releases

[Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Manuel,

You have uncovered a defect in our packaging. We will fix it in a release soon. Here is the ticket:

https://opensciencegrid.atlassian.net/browse/HTCONDOR-1127

Thank you for reporting the issue.

...Tim

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Tim Theisen (he, him, his)
Release Manager
HTCondor & Open Science Grid
Center for High Throughput Computing
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin - Madison
4261 Computer Sciences and Statistics
1210 W Dayton St
Madison, WI 53706-1685
+1 608 265 5736

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From: HTCondor-users <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Giffels, Manuel (IAP) <manuel.giffels@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 8:16 AM
To: htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx <htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [HTCondor-users] Broken rpm dependencies hamper installation of older 9.0.x releases

 

Dear all,

parts of our systems at GridKa use a fixed HTCondor version to avoid automated updates by our puppet configuration management. While re-deploying one of that nodes, we figured out the following problem. The HTCondor version was fixed to 9.0.9-1.el7 and the command yum install condor-9.0.9-1.el7 failed due to dependencies problems. The reason is that condor-9.0.9-1.el7 requires python{2,3}-condor without a specific version. yum is then using the latest version, which however requires a specific condor version, in that case condor-9.0.12-1.el7.

Is this intended behavior or a bug in the packaging procedure?

Steps to reproduce:
===============

yum install epel-release
yum install https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/repo/9.0/htcondor-release-current.el7.noarch.rpm

yum install condor-9.0.9-1.el7 -> Fails!

yum install condor-9.0.9-1.el7 python2-condor-9.0.9-1.el7 python3-condor-9.0.9-1.el7 -> Works!

The reason is

rpm -q --requires condor-9.0.9-1.el7 | grep python
python2-condor -> no version
python3-condor -> no version

while
rpm -q --requires python2-condor |grep condor
condor = 9.0.9-1.el7
libcondor_utils_9_0_9.so()(64bit)

Thanks and best regards,
Manuel

Dr. Manuel Giffels, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC)
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Phone: +49 721 608 28636, Email: Manuel.Giffels@xxxxxxx