[rdo-dev] Rocky RPM dependency issue - pyparsing

[Haïkel Guémar]

On 31/07/18 21:06, iain MacDonnell wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Kicking the t[yi]res on Rocky a bit, and I've run into an(other) RPM
> dependency issue. The symptom, when attempting to install
> openstack-keystone, is:
> 
> Transaction check error:
>    file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyparsing.py from install of
> python2-pyparsing-2.1.10-3.el7.noarch conflicts with file from package
> pyparsing-1.5.6-9.el7.noarch
> ...etc..
> 
> 
> It appears that the RPM name changed from "pyparsing" to
> "python2-pyparsing" somewhere along the way, and there's a kludgy
> empty "pyparsing" RPM that "requires" "python2-pyparsing":
> 
> # rpm -qRlp /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/centos7-master/packages/pyparsing-2.1.10-3.el7.noarch.rpm
> python-pyparsing = 2.1.10-3.el7
> rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
> rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
> (contains no files)
> #
> 
> 
> This worked OK before because the "python-cmd2" RPM delivered in the
> openstack-queens repo "requires" "pyparsing":
> 
> # rpm -qRp openstack-queens/python-cmd2-0.6.8-8.el7.noarch.rpm | grep parsing
> pyparsing >= 2.0.1
> #
> 
> 
> but the version in centos7-master "requires" "python2-pyparsing":
> 
> # rpm -qRp /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/centos7-master/packages/python2-cmd2-0.8.8-5.el7.noarch.rpm
> | grep parsing
> python2-pyparsing >= 2.0.1
> #
> 
> and, unfortunately, that does not obsolete "pyparsing", so we end up
> with the conflict.
> 
> Not sure why they didn't just have python2-pyparsing "provide" and
> "obsolete" "pyparsing".
> 

This package was a rebuild from Fedora, and it got fixed in a later commit.
I'll push a newer build today.

> This would probably not be an issue if the OS had been installed with
> centos7-master to begin with, but I don't think that that can be
> assumed - 7.5 comes with pyparsing-1.5.6-9.el7.noarch.
> 
> Will openstack-rocky be delivered with a version of python2-cmd that
> "requires" "pyparsing", or does this need to be fixed in
> centos7-master, or ..... ? Seems it will need to provide something,
> since the pyparsing in currently-shipping el7 is too old ....
> 
>      ~iain



> _______________________________________________
> dev mailing list
> dev at lists.rdoproject.org
> http://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
> 
> To unsubscribe: dev-unsubscribe at lists.rdoproject.org
>