Fix setup writing with confdb.py for HLT

[Martin-Grunewald]

PR description:

Fix setup writing with confdb.py for HLT, as suggested by David Sperka

PR validation:

Explicit test - script now works!

if this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR:

Backport of #35368 - fix for user script supporting HLT work

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @Martin-Grunewald (Martin Grunewald) for CMSSW_12_0_X.

It involves the following packages:

• HLTrigger/Configuration (hlt)

@Martin-Grunewald, @missirol, @cmsbuild can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@missirol this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.

cms-bot commands are listed here

• Backported from Fix setup writing with confdb.py for HLT #35368

[Martin-Grunewald]

type bugfix

[Martin-Grunewald]

backport of #35368

[Martin-Grunewald]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-4c7b3b/18836/summary.html
COMMIT: 1579044
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_0_X_2021-09-22-1100/slc7_amd64_gcc900
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/35369/18836/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 10 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 39
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 2998564
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 17
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 1
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2998524
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: -0.004 KiB( 38 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 312.0 ): -0.004 KiB MessageLogger/Warnings
• Checked 165 log files, 37 edm output root files, 39 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[Martin-Grunewald]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_12_0_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_12_1_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[qliphy]

+1