Ticket 9293

Summary: pmix version incorrectly calculated in RPM spec
Product: Slurm Reporter: Matt Williams <matt>
Component: PMIxAssignee: Tim Wickberg <tim>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
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Priority: --- CC: carlos.bederian, ccoates, jvilarru, matt
Version: 20.02.3   
Hardware: Linux   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11973
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Attachments: pmix/ucx rpm spec fix

Description Matt Williams 2020-06-29 07:28:49 MDT 
I am trying to build Slurm 20.02.3 using rpmbuild on the opensuse Build Service. There is a line in the spec which fixes the version of pmix that slurmd depends on based on the version of the pmix package installed:

  %global pmix_version %(rpm -q pmix --qf "%{VERSION}")

However (at least on the version of rpmbuild used on the OBS), when reading this line it is interpreting "%{VERSION}" as wanting to interpolate and replace the string with the defined macro %{version}. From my reading of the RPM docs, variable lookups are case-insensitive so this makes some sense.

The result of this is that the line gets turned into:

  %global pmix_version %(rpm -q pmix --qf "20.02.3")

which returns simply "20.02.3", meaning that later on when the pmix requirement is set it does:

  Requires: pmix = %{pmix_version}

i.e.

  Requires: pmix = 20.02.3

when it should be, e.g. 3.1.5.


I have found that this ambiguity can be resolved by changing the pmix_version definition line to:

  %global pmix_version %(rpm -q pmix --qf "%{RPMTAG_VERSION}")

The same logic probably applies to ucx but I haven't tested that.
Comment 1 Chris Coates 2021-03-15 04:14:25 MDT 
Just adding in a me too on this.

I can confirm that the same workaround in the spec file for ucx_version also works.

Tested on 20.02.6, CentOS 8.2.
Comment 2 Carlos Bederian 2021-08-11 21:43:19 MDT 
Created attachment 20792 [details]
pmix/ucx rpm spec fix
Comment 3 Carlos Bederian 2021-08-11 21:44:19 MDT 
I've also run into this bug. %{VERSION} should be escaped to %%{VERSION} so it doesn't get replaced as a macro.
Comment 4 Oriol Vilarrubi 2021-08-24 03:34:21 MDT 
Hi,

We will be fixing this in bug11973, marking this a duplicate.
Comment 5 Oriol Vilarrubi 2021-08-24 03:38:09 MDT 
Marking as duplicate

*** This ticket has been marked as a duplicate of ticket 11973 ***