Fedora 28: xen-libs SOVERSION too old for fedora packages

[cshoredaniel]

Qubes OS version:

VERSION="4.0 (R4.0)"

Affected component(s):

Fedora 28 templates which attempt to install Fedora packages which depend on libxenlight but which do not exist in Qubes repository.

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Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. sudo dnf install libguestfs-tools

Expected behavior:

1. libguestfs-tools and dependencies get installed

Actual behavior:

The following errors:

  - package libguestfs-tools-1:1.38.0-1.fc28.noarch requires libguestfs = 1:1.38.0-1.fc28, but none of the providers can be installed
Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - package libguestfs-tools-1:1.38.2-1.fc28.noarch requires libguestfs = 1:1.38.2-1.fc28, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package libguestfs-tools-1:1.38.0-1.fc28.noarch requires libguestfs = 1:1.38.0-1.fc28, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package libguestfs-1:1.38.2-1.fc28.i686 requires libvirt-daemon-kvm >= 0.10.2-3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package libguestfs-1:1.38.2-1.fc28.x86_64 requires libvirt-daemon-kvm >= 0.10.2-3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package libguestfs-1:1.38.0-1.fc28.i686 requires libvirt-daemon-kvm >= 0.10.2-3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package libguestfs-1:1.38.0-1.fc28.x86_64 requires libvirt-daemon-kvm >= 0.10.2-3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package libvirt-daemon-kvm-4.1.0-2.fc28.x86_64 requires qemu-kvm, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package qemu-kvm-2:2.11.1-2.fc28.x86_64 requires qemu-system-x86 = 2:2.11.1-2.fc28, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package qemu-system-x86-2:2.11.1-2.fc28.x86_64 requires qemu-system-x86-core = 2:2.11.1-2.fc28, but none of the providers can be installed
  - problem with installed package xen-qubes-vm-2001:4.8.3-7.fc28.x86_64                                     
  - package xen-qubes-vm-2001:4.8.3-7.fc28.x86_64 requires libxenctrl.so.4.8()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package qemu-system-x86-core-2:2.11.1-2.fc28.x86_64 requires libxenctrl.so.4.10()(64bit), but none of the
providers can be installed
  - cannot install both xen-libs-2001:4.8.3-7.fc28.x86_64 and xen-libs-4.10.1-3.fc28.x86_64                  
  - cannot install both xen-libs-2001:4.8.3-7.fc28.x86_64 and xen-libs-4.10.0-8.fc28.x86_64                  
  - cannot install both xen-libs-4.10.1-3.fc28.x86_64 and xen-libs-2001:4.8.3-7.fc28.x86_64                  
  - cannot install both xen-libs-4.10.0-8.fc28.x86_64 and xen-libs-2001:4.8.3-7.fc28.x86_64  

General notes:

As you can see fedora 28 wants 4.10 but Qubes only provides 4.8.3 and they can't coexist.

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Related issues:

#3944

[cshoredaniel]

Fedora 27 has same issue but wants xen-libs 4.9 instead of 4.8 (qubes) or 4.10 (fedora 28).

[cshoredaniel]

Fedora 27 has same issue but wants xen-libs 4.9 instead of 4.8 (qubes) or 4.10 (fedora 28).