On 02. 03. 22 13:12, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 11:44:10AM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: >> On 02. 03. 22 11:16, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >> >> Hello. >> >>> I'm sending this on behalf of the packagers of the Pulp project. >>> >>> The Pulp project uses createrepo_c and in particular the Python bindings. >>> The appstream repository does contain python3-createrepo_c but Pulp needs >>> Python 3.8 so it uses the 3.8 module. There is no python38-createrepo_c so >>> for now we're building it ourselves. The problem shows up when createrepo_c >>> is bumped in CentOS Stream. From repoclosure: >>> >>> Depsolve Error occured: >>> Problem: package python38-createrepo_c-0.17.7-3.2.el8.x86_64 requires >>> createrepo_c-libs = 0.17.7-3.2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed >>> - cannot install both createrepo_c-libs-0.17.7-4.el8.x86_64 and >>> createrepo_c-libs-0.17.7-3.2.el8.x86_64 >>> - cannot install both createrepo_c-libs-0.17.7-3.2.el8.x86_64 and >>> createrepo_c-libs-0.17.7-4.el8.x86_64 >>> - cannot install the best update candidate for package >>> python38-createrepo_c-0.17.7-3.2.el8.x86_64 >>> - cannot install the best update candidate for package >>> createrepo_c-libs-0.17.7-3.2.el8.x86_64 >>> >>> It would be ideal if CentOS itself built python38-createrepo_c (and possibly >>> also for other Python modules). Is this something that could be done? >> >> Technically yes, but that depends on RHEL business decisions. > > I had hoped I could get this resolved via upstream channels, but I'll see if I > can use my Red Hat and some internal channel. > >> If you want to build your own, I think there are two fundamentally different >> ways to build python38-createrepo_c in c8s. >> >> The first way, that I would use for example in EPEL 8, is to create a >> python38-createrepo_c component, build the package in there, but not ship >> createrepo_c-libs at all, but depend on the official one. If you could share >> your spec file, I can send you an updated version that will do this and fix >> the dependency thing. You will however need to keep it more or less synced >> with the baseline createrepo_c package whenever it is updated in RHEL / c8s. > > It is maintained here: > > https://github.com/theforeman/pulpcore-packaging/tree/rpm/3.16/packages/createrepo_c Oh, this uses SCL? I don't really understand the SCL-ness of the spec, but something like this should do: https://github.com/theforeman/pulpcore-packaging/pull/407 -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok