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.