OPTE depends on a specific kernel build and some specific library versions

[rcgoodfellow]

When new versions of OPTE are built, the dependency resolution machinery produces something that looks like this

set name=pkg.fmri value=pkg://helios-dev/driver/network/opte@0.31.260,5.11:20240527T135745Z
set name=pkg.summary value="The Oxide Packet Transformation Engine"
set name=info.classification value=org.opensolaris.category.2008:Drivers/Networking
set name=variant.opensolaris.zone value=global value=nonglobal
set name=variant.arch value=i386
set name=variant.debug.illumos value=false value=true
dir group=sys mode=0755 owner=root path=opt variant.opensolaris.zone=global
dir group=bin mode=0755 owner=root path=opt/oxide variant.opensolaris.zone=global
dir group=bin mode=0755 owner=root path=opt/oxide/opte variant.opensolaris.zone=global
dir group=bin mode=0755 owner=root path=opt/oxide/opte/bin variant.opensolaris.zone=global
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dir group=sys mode=0755 owner=root path=kernel variant.opensolaris.zone=global
dir group=sys mode=0755 owner=root path=kernel/drv variant.opensolaris.zone=global
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dir group=sys mode=0755 owner=root path=usr/lib/devfsadm variant.opensolaris.zone=global
dir group=sys mode=0755 owner=root path=usr/lib/devfsadm/linkmod variant.opensolaris.zone=global
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driver name=xde
depend fmri=pkg:/system/kernel@0.5.11-2.0.22656 type=require variant.opensolaris.zone=global
depend fmri=pkg:/system/library/gcc-runtime@13-2.0 type=require variant.opensolaris.zone=global
depend fmri=pkg:/system/library/math@0.5.11-2.0.22656 type=require variant.debug.illumos=true variant.opensolaris.zone=global
depend fmri=pkg:/system/library@0.5.11-2.0.22656 type=require variant.opensolaris.zone=global

The depend clauses with 0.5.11-2.0.22656 are problematic, as they pin the package to that exact version or newer. So if the build machine producing this package is newer than the environments folks are running OPTE in package installs will fail - even if the the changes in the kerkel or these libraries do not matter at an interface level.

The above text was grabbed from the p5p file from a recent CI run here.

[jclulow]

The library dependencies are definitely going to be harder to relax, depending on what's being built to link against them. The easiest way to improve the situation is going to be building on an older OS image. The second best is probably to essentially cross compile against (and then resolve dependencies using) an older system image made available in an alternate root.