Dependency issue with papi-ohpc
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Installing ohpc-gnu9-perf-tools and dependencies downgrades papi-ohpc from 6.0 to 5.7. The next time you dnf update you get the following.
Error:
Problem: package scorep-gnu9-mpich-ohpc-6.0-3.1.ohpc.2.0.x86_64 requires libpapi.so.5()(64bit)(ohpc), but none of the providers can be installed
- cannot install both papi-ohpc-6.0.0-1.3.ohpc.2.6.x86_64 and papi-ohpc-5.7.0-3.12.ohpc.2.0.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package scorep-gnu9-mpich-ohpc-6.0-3.1.ohpc.2.0.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package papi-ohpc-5.7.0-3.12.ohpc.2.0.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)
[root@thor2-head security]# dnf upgrade papi-ohpc
Last metadata expiration check: 0:49:58 ago on Fri Feb 17 14:13:17 2023.
Error:
Problem: problem with installed package tau-gnu9-openmpi4-ohpc-2.29-6.1.ohpc.2.0.x86_64
- package tau-gnu9-openmpi4-ohpc-2.29-6.1.ohpc.2.0.x86_64 requires libpapi.so.5()(64bit)(ohpc), but none of the providers can be installed
- cannot install both papi-ohpc-6.0.0-1.3.ohpc.2.6.x86_64 and papi-ohpc-5.7.0-3.12.ohpc.2.0.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package papi-ohpc-5.7.0-3.12.ohpc.2.0.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)
Thanks for reporting this. This is indeed an error from our side and I am not sure how to avoid this.
We currently have no way to handle something like this. This means we have to make sure that a dependency like papi cannot change the SO name during a major release.
DLL hell basically ;-)
We can create a compatibility package for the 2.7 release to unbreak the repository.
Maybe running repoclosure before a release would help to catch problems like this.