[LON-CAPA-admin] problem with dependencies in centos/sl 7

[Juan Eduardo Ramirez]

Hi Stuart and HK,
   Thanks for the suggestion. I excluded sbcl from epel, to avoid future 
dependence issues.
And thanks for your rpm rebuild.

Eduardo

On 08/29/2016 06:14 PM, Stuart Raeburn wrote:
> Hi Eduardo,
>
>>
>>  I noted yum stopped updating our loncapa server.
>>
>
> That would have happened when you added epel.repo to the enabled 
> repositories on your Scientific Linux 7 server.
>
> The maxima-runtime-sbcl package included in the CentOS/Scientific/RHEL 
> repos for LON-CAPA was built against sbcl-1.0.38-3.el6, because the 
> EPEL repo for 7Server was not available at that time CentOS 7 was 
> originally released (July 2014), at which time LON-CAPA also began 
> being supported on that distro.
>
> Anyway, I have updated the maxima-runtime-sbcl package in the LON-CAPA 
> Scientific Linux 7 repo at install.loncapa.org with a new rpm built 
> against the updated sbcl (sbcl-1.2.8-1.el7) available from the EPEL 
> 7Server repo for CentOS/Scientific/RHEL 7.
>
> If you do:
>
> yum clean all
> yum update
>
> you'll retrieve version 5.30.0-4 of both maxima and the sbcl runtime 
> for maxima, as well as version 1.2.8-1 of sbcl.
>
> Restart the LON-CAPA daemons, and the web server after the update:
>
> /etc/init.d/loncontrol restart
> /bin/systemctl restart  httpd.service
>
> I would also recommend including the line:
>
> exclude=sbcl
>
> in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
>
> because although the EPEL 6Server repo includes maxima, that is no 
> longer the case for EPEL 7Server, so if the version of sbcl is updated 
> in the EPEL 7Server repo in the future you'll encounter the same issue 
> with a dependency from the maxima runtime, unless you've added that 
> exclude line.
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
> Quoting Juan Eduardo Ramirez <eduardo at charma.uprm.edu>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I noted yum stopped updating our loncapa server. Checking closer, I
>> found that  maxima-runtime-sbcl has the wrong dependence (See below)
>> holding other packages updates. The problem is sbcl can not be upgraded
>> to epel version 1.2.8-1.el7 because maxima-runtime is asking for a
>> given version from previous os (el6).
>>
>> Could this be fixed, to let automatic security updates work again?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eduardo
>>
>> ##from yum-daily.cron output###
>>
>> Failed to check for updates with the following error message:
>> Failed to build transaction:
>> maxima-runtime-sbcl-5.30.0-3.scientific.lc.x86_64 requires sbcl =
>> 1.0.38-3.el6
>
>
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