[Libguestfs] Fwd: libnbd | Failed pipeline for master | 2e381ac2

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 11:09:13AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >From the log:
> https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/jobs/1540375264
> 
> opensuse zypper seems to be failing with a recoverable error:
> 
> Resolving package dependencies...
> Problem: the to be installed glib2-devel-2.68.3-4.1.x86_64 requires 'libglib-2_0-0 = 2.68.3', but this requirement cannot be provided
>   not installable providers: libglib-2_0-0-2.68.3-4.1.i586[repo-oss]
>                    libglib-2_0-0-2.68.3-4.1.x86_64[repo-oss]
>  Solution 1: downgrade of libglib-2_0-0-2.68.4-1.1.x86_64 to libglib-2_0-0-2.68.3-4.1.x86_64
>  Solution 2: do not install glib2-devel-2.68.3-4.1.x86_64
>  Solution 3: break glib2-devel-2.68.3-4.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
> Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c/d/?] (c): c
> 
> I wonder if this is something that libvirt-ci should handle better?
> 
> I found this thread which seems to indicate there's no way to force
> zypper to pick an option:
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/suse-opensuse-60/how-to-pre-select-solutions-1-or-2-in-autoyast-xml-config-file-4175688006/
> which is kind of annoying.  But maybe --force-resolution is worth a try?

I've not tried that option, but I will say that openSuse Tumbleweed
seems to hit these broken dependancy problems fairly often.  I'm
increasingly inclined to say it is too unstable to be worth having
in CI, unless it is marked "allow_failure: true" so it doesn't
block the pipeline


Regards,
Daniel
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