On 1/10/21 5:18 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a CentOS 8.3 machine I want to upgrade to Stream following [1]. > > After fighting with it a bit due to oVirt-specific issues [2], I > reached the current point: doing 'dnf update' updated everything > nicely, but now doing 'dnf distro-sync' wants to downgrade these > packages: > > Downgrading: > httpd x86_64 2.4.37-30.module_el8.3.0+462+ba287492.0.1 appstream 1.7 M > httpd-filesystem > noarch 2.4.37-30.module_el8.3.0+462+ba287492.0.1 appstream 37 k > httpd-tools x86_64 2.4.37-30.module_el8.3.0+462+ba287492.0.1 appstream 104 k > mod_ssl x86_64 1:2.4.37-30.module_el8.3.0+462+ba287492.0.1 appstream 133 k > python3-docutils > noarch 0.14-12.module_el8.3.0+389+6a62c88d appstream 1.6 M > python36 x86_64 3.6.8-2.module_el8.3.0+389+6a62c88d appstream 19 k > > I specifically mention httpd in Subject because that's the one I spent > some time looking at, but the issue is general. > > I currently have httpd-2.4.37-30.module_el8.3.0+561+97fdbbcc.x86_64 . > It seems to be the result of [3], which says it was built from: > git+https://git.centos.org/rpms/httpd#2f74eecf85362e67c403b7b1386a729da3e5c33d > . > > distro-sync wants to downgrade to > 2.4.37-30.module_el8.3.0+462+ba287492.0.1 , which seems to be the > result of [4], which says it was built from: > git+https://git.centos.org/rpms/httpd#fcb5444a5c0aefcd065e6c4a805a454e4988b78c > . > > cloning the git repo, and then checking the difference between them, I get: > > $ git diff 2f74eecf fcb5444a > diff --git a/SPECS/httpd.spec b/SPECS/httpd.spec > index 8322bd8..7d66f2e 100644 > --- a/SPECS/httpd.spec > +++ b/SPECS/httpd.spec > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ > Summary: Apache HTTP Server > Name: httpd > Version: 2.4.37 > -Release: 30%{?dist} > +Release: 30%{?dist}.0.1 > URL: https://httpd.apache.org/ > Source0: https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-%{version}.tar.bz2 > Source1: centos-noindex-8.0.tar.gz > > So: > > 1. The sources seem to be identical, right now, with the only > difference being the 'Release:'. > > 2. I failed to find where '462+ba287492' and '561+97fdbbcc' are coming > from. I assume they are automatically-generated during the build > process, but not saved in the dist-git repo. These seem to be what's > causing the "newer" version in Stream to be considered a "Downgrade" - > 462 < 561. Perhaps they are some kind of timestamps, or increasing > counters, etc., and '462' was built earlier than '561', even if in all > other regards it should be considered "newer". > > 3. Perhaps the intention was to have the release in Stream: > > Release: 30.0.1%{?dist} > > ? > I think this would have caused this to not be considered a downgrade. > I might be missing something. > > 4. IMO this is a bit confusing/discouraging. Can/Do we do anything so > that 8-Stream packages are always >= 8.3 ones? Perhaps a fix should be > manually applied to each and every package (if at all), but just > generating a report somewhere, perhaps with a place to a link to a bug > per package as applicable, can be done in batch, more-or-less, if I > got it right. Do we have something like this? Do we want something > like this? > > 5. Perhaps (alternatively?), Stream's version should just be rebuilt, > e.g. with 'Release: 30%{?dist}.0.2'. > > Thanks and best regards, > > [1] https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/ > > [2] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-cockpit-sso/pull/30 > > [3] https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=14516 > > [4] https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=12971 > Some things, especially modules, will not matchup between stream and CentOS Linux 8. That is just how it is.