perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jean-Michel Barbet <>]

On 3/22/21 9:31 PM, Mark Feit wrote:

> Upgrading to oniguruma-6.8.2 shouldn’t be a problem; I checked several 
> production systems that auto-update and found them all running 
> oniguruma-6.8.2-1.  The jq RPM has been around for two years and 
> specifies a dependence on oniguruma but not a version and that version 
> of oniguruma appeared in EPEL about a year.

Hi Mark,

Thank you.

It looks like the Perfsonar provide "jq" has a versioned dependency on
libonig.so : libonig.so.2()(64bit) which prevent oniguruma to be
updated.

The available update in EPEL
oniguruma-6.8.2-1.el7.x86_64 provides libonig.so.5()(64bit)

The installed version
oniguruma-5.9.5-3.el7.x86_64 provides libonig.so.2()(64bit)


> Is there anything about the way YUM on your system is configured, such 
> as not using the usual mirrors or using alternate repositories with 
> priorities?

I think I have the usual repos and I have not found any use of
priorities...

> Is there a reason to have a special version of jq in the Perfsonar repo ?
>
> Yes, there is. 

It is OK that Perfsonar provides a fixed version of jq but, if it does
nor rely on specifics of the libonig.so library, maybe the requirement
in the RPM should be relaxed ?

JM


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