Package: rinse Version: 3.3 Severity: important I’m using rinse as part of the FAI toolchain to install OracleLinux-7 machines. Building the RPM basefile fails about half of the time (e.g. with message "Failed to initialize NSS library"). Sometimes the error message suggests that a shared library could not be found.
I believe the root cause is that rinse downloads different packages every time if the RPM repository contains multiple packages of the same name (obviously with different version numbers). I could reproduce this using the following setup: 1) Add the OracleLinux-7 repository to /etc/rinse/rinse.conf [ol7] mirror.amd64 = http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64 2) Create a stripped-down /etc/rinse/ol7.packages nss nss-softokn nss-softokn-freebl nss-sysinit nss-tools nss-util 3) Show what rinse would download # rinse --directory /tmp --distribution ol7 --arch amd64 --cache 0 --print-uris http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-3.34.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-softokn-3.44.0-5.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-softokn-freebl-3.34.0-2.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-sysinit-3.36.0-5.el7_5.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-tools-3.36.0-5.el7_5.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-util-3.34.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm # rinse --directory /tmp --distribution ol7 --arch amd64 --cache 0 --print-uris http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-3.44.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-softokn-3.36.0-5.0.1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-softokn-freebl-3.34.0-2.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-sysinit-3.36.0-7.1.el7_6.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-tools-3.36.0-7.1.el7_6.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-util-3.34.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm # rinse --directory /tmp --distribution ol7 --arch amd64 --cache 0 --print-uris http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-3.44.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-softokn-3.36.0-5.0.1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-softokn-freebl-3.36.0-5.0.1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-sysinit-3.36.0-7.el7_5.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-tools-3.44.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/nss-util-3.36.0-1.1.el7_6.x86_64.rpm As you can see I get each time a different mixture of 3.34, 3.36 and 3.44 package versions if I run the same command multiple times in a row. NSS is used by the ’rpm’ package to unpack the packages in the chroot which sometimes fails caused by mismatching shared libraries. Therefore I don’t get a working base in the chroot where I could use ’yum’ to update all the packages to the latest version. I believe that ’rinse’ should only download the latest version of every package found in the package repository. Currently it looks like it is downloading a random package that matches the name. I’m not sure if this also happenw with other distributions. But it looks like Oracle keeps old packages in the repository causing it to fail. Regards, Stefan
