ncm-spma 23.6 on EL8/9: incorrect dependencies on YUM plugins

[jouvin]

ncm-spma package has a dependency on yum-plugin-versionlock which does not do anything on EL8/9 with DNF. DNF plugin for achieving version locking is python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock that can't be installed as it conflicts with the YUM version.

[stdweird]

on our el88 hosts, we have

 rpm -q --provides python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
config(python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock) = 4.0.21-19.el8_8
dnf-command(versionlock)
dnf-plugin-versionlock = 4.0.21-19.el8_8
dnf-plugins-extras-versionlock = 4.0.21-19.el8_8
python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock = 4.0.21-19.el8_8
python3-dnf-plugins-extras-versionlock = 4.0.21-19.el8_8
yum-plugin-versionlock = 4.0.21-19.el8_8

and only a dnf version lock plugin. OTOH, we don't have any yum-plugin-versionlock rpm in our repos. perhaps you have one, and it has a higher version then the one dnf-plugin-versionlock provides?

[jouvin]

@stdweird thanks for the info. I think I understand what happend: we have yum-plugin-versionlock (1.1.31) package installed by AII (Anaconda phase) from the distrib (because of our KS configuration). In the baseos repo we have the DNF version of the plugin you mentioned that provides the feature yum-plugin-versionlock but as it is already present it is not upgraded. We fixed the template configuring KS and to fix the problem without reinstalling I should have used rpm -e --nodeps instead of dnf remove yum-plugin-versionlock that removes also ncm-spma.

[jouvin]

For the record, I found the problem in our config that caused this misbehavior. We had in our EL8 repositories a copy of the EL7 yum-plugin-versionlock that was overriding the one provided by Quattor which is an empty RPM with empty dependencies that allows the successful installation of python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock.