packages-microsoft-com-prod repository for RHEL9 has a system-release < 9 as a dependency.

[YoNoSoyVictor]

Hey team. Hope everything is going well!

We just noticed some issues recently when installing the Azure CLI in an automated manner For RHEL 9 (The errors started round 2025-02-03) . We now receive this message:

"Depsolve Error occurred: \n Problem: conflicting requests\n - nothing provides system-release < 9 needed by packages-microsoft-prod-1.1-2.noarch from @commandline"

The error is self-explanatory - it expects a system-release version < 9. However the repository being added is https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/9.0/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm as explained in step 2 from the Azure CLI installation instructions [1]. This should be the correct repository for RHEL 9.

Is it possible that there were some recent changes in this repository?

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-linux?pivots=dnf#install-azure-cli

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[YoNoSoyVictor]

Seems like this works when performing the steps manually in our affected hosts. Issue is likely on our side.

Closing Issue.

[YoNoSoyVictor]

Reopening as the root cause of the issue was found.

The package requirements are listed as follows:

[root@bastion-v8qhl ~]# rpm -qp packages-microsoft-prod.rpm --requires
config(packages-microsoft-prod) = 1.1-2
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
system-release < 10
system-release >= 9

system-release is an outdated package, if the package is for RHEL and the package name is officially redhat-release. See example:

[root@bastion-v8qhl ~]# rpm -qa|grep release
redhat-release-eula-9.4-0.5.el9.x86_64
redhat-release-9.4-0.5.el9.x86_64

This was likely changed recently which is why we started seeing issues.

While it seems to work installing manually with dnf it breaks things like the ansible dnf module [1]. This should be changed.

[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/dnf_module.html#ansible-collections-ansible-builtin-dnf-module

[sdherr]

Hi @YoNoSoyVictor , the name of the package (system-release vs redhat-release) is irrelevant, what actually matters is if the RPM "provides" something that satisfies the requirement. Which it does in my testing:

# rpm -q --provides redhat-release
base-module(platform:el9)
config(redhat-release) = 9.5-0.6.el9
redhat-release = 9.5-0.6.el9
redhat-release(x86-64) = 9.5-0.6.el9
redhat-release-client
redhat-release-computenode
redhat-release-server
redhat-release-workstation
system-release = 9.5-0.6.el9
system-release(releasever) = 9

# rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-9.5-0.6.el9.x86_64

Here you see that this version of redhat-release provides a version of system-release that should satisfy the requirement.

Furthermore, if it works with dnf but not with an ansible script I think that's pretty clear evidence that the ansible script is broken. The ansible script may be relying on the package name, which is wrong.

You're correct that this requirement is a recent change and it explains why this only recently started failing, but so far I don't see any evidence that this change is wrong. The intent here is to prevent people from accidentally installing the wrong package/repo for their system, eg installing the RHEL 8 repo on a RHEL 9 system or vice-versa, and it seems to be working properly from what I can see.

[sdherr]

I'm also confused because the error message you reported in the initial comment does not match with your later investigation. That error message claims to be looking for a version of system-release < 9, which you correctly identified as incorrect for a RHEL 9 system. The RHEL 8 version of the package has that requirement. Are you sure that the RHEL 8 version of the package is not sneaking in to your ansible script somehow? The RHEL 9 package seems to have the correct requirements to me:

# curl -L https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/9.0/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm > packages-microsoft-prod.rpm

# rpm -qp --requires packages-microsoft-prod.rpm 
config(packages-microsoft-prod) = 1.1-2
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
system-release < 10
system-release >= 9