Fixing issues reported by tdnf check

[Mark Wood-Patrick]

Describe the bug

Is there a PhotonOS discussion forum somewhere that I can join?

I have the minimal set of packages installed on Photon OS V 5.0 (based on installing photon-minimal-5.0-dde71ec57.x86_64.iso) and after boot running:

tdnf update

but when running:

sudo tdnf check

I get:

1. package mysql-devel-8.0.35-2.ph5.x86_64 requires mysql = 8.0.35-2.ph5, but none of the providers can be installed
2. package ntpsec-1.2.2-2.ph5.x86_64 conflicts with ntp provided by ntp-4.2.8p17-1.ph5.x86_64
3. package openresty-1.21.4.1-9.ph5.x86_64 conflicts with nginx provided by nginx-1.25.2-2.ph5.x86_64
4. package mariadb-10.9.4-6.ph5.x86_64 conflicts with mysql provided by mysql-8.0.35-2.ph5.x86_64
5. package libsoup-doc-2.72.0-8.ph5.x86_64 requires libsoup = 2.72.0-8.ph5, but none of the providers can be installed
6. package mkpasswd-5.5.15-1.ph5.x86_64 conflicts with expect provided by expect-5.45.4-2.ph5.x86_64
7. package confd-3.26.1-6.ph5.x86_64 conflicts with calico-confd <= 0.16.0-20 provided by calico-confd-0.16.0-11.ph5.x86_64
8. package byacc-2.0.20221106-1.ph5.x86_64 conflicts with bison provided by bison-3.8.2-3.ph5.x86_64
Found 8 problem(s) while resolving
Error(1301) : Solv general runtime error

Does anyone know why this is or how best to fix?

Reproduction steps

1. Boot PhotonOS using photon-minimal-5.0-dde71ec57.x86_64.iso
2. Run tdnf update
3. Run tdnf check
   ...

Expected behavior

No package issues

Additional context

I'm running PhotonOS on WSL-2 using QEMU on Debian distro:

qemu-system-x86_64 -name photon-debug --enable-kvm -drive
id=disk,file=photon-5.0-debug.qcow2,if=none -drive id=cdrom,file=photon-minimal-5.0-dde71ec57.x86_64.iso,media=cdrom,if=none,read-only=on -device ahci,id=ahci -device ide-hd,drive=disk,bus=ahci.0 -device ide-cd,drive=cdrom,bus=ahci.1 -m 4096 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22 -net nic -virtfs local,path=/mnt/wsl,mount_tag=wsl,security_model=passthrough,id=wsl

[dcasota]

This packages conflict information is similar to #1385, see part-issue G), and #1417 (comment). At that time those few packages conflicts have been accepted for the win of a new major release in time.
There were a few tdnf check informations about packages conflicts in previous releases too, e.g. Ph4.0 starts with 28 conflicts. After a tdnf update tdnf there still are 17 conflicts.
From an outsider view, @oliverkurth and his team do a great job with respect of the limited resources they have been approved for the open-source Photon OS.

[Oliver Kurth]

There is not an issue in your VM. tdnf check merely shows what error you would get when trying to install all packages available in enabled repositories. There are many packages, some of them conflict with each other so those cannot be installed at the same time.