OBS repository for Fedora 31 does not provide any x86_64 packages

[andreipoe]

Hello,

The OBS repository for Fedora 31 (instructions here) doesn't seem to provide any packages:

$ sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/shells:fish:release:3/Fedora_31/shells:fish:release:3.repo
$ sudo dnf --refresh repoquery -a --repo shells_fish_release_3

The repoquery command above does not list any packages. The only fish packages that DNF finds are the ones from the system repositories, where 3.1 isn't yet available:

$ sudo dnf list --showduplicates fish
Installed Packages
fish.x86_64                                              3.0.2-1.module_f31+3716+57207597                                              @fedora-modular
Available Packages
fish.x86_64                                              3.0.2-1.module_f31+3716+57207597                                              fedora-modular
fish.x86_64                                              3.0.2-1.module_f31+3716+57207597                                              updates-modular

Opening the repository page in a browser does list fish 3.1 RPMs for x86_64. Is perhaps some of the metadata incorrect?

Thanks.

[zanchey]

Yes, I guess it must be. The repository files all look OK to me - they list the packages and so on - but I've no idea how to ask DNF to inspect things further.

[root@localhost ~]# dnf repository-packages shells_fish_release_3 info fish
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:42 ago on Sun 16 Feb 2020 14:28:22 UTC.
Error: No matching Packages to list
[root@localhost ~]# dnf repository-packages shells_fish_release_3 list --all
Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:30 ago on Sun 16 Feb 2020 14:28:22 UTC.
[root@localhost ~]#

[zanchey]

Oh no:

# dnf -v repository-packages shells_fish_release_3 install fish
All matches were filtered out by modular filtering for argument: fish
Error: No packages marked for install.

So the problem is that Fedora ships a Modular package of fish, and standalone packages (contained within our OBS repository) can never have a higher priority than Modular packages.

I don't think OBS can create modular repositories, but I'll email the list tomorrow.

[zanchey]

OK, OBS can't create modular repositories. A Fedora developer has added 3.1.0 to the f31-updates-testing repos, so you should be able to pick it up from there. I under there is a plan to demodularise fish (if that's the word), so in future this should work better.

[andreipoe]

Excellent, thanks for investigating!

For a temporary workaround, it looks like you can also manually disable the fish module, which will let dnf install the version from the OBS repo:

# dnf list --showduplicates fish
Installed Packages
fish.x86_64                                              3.0.2-1.module_f31+3716+57207597                                              @fedora-modular
Available Packages
fish.x86_64                                              3.0.2-2.fc31                                                                  fedora

# dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/shells:fish:release:3/Fedora_31/shells:fish:release:3.repo
# dnf --refresh list --showduplicates fish
Installed Packages
fish.x86_64                                           3.0.2-1.module_f31+3716+57207597                                           @fedora-modular
Available Packages
fish.x86_64                                           3.0.2-2.fc31                                                               fedora
fish.aarch64                                          3.1.0-3.1                                                                  shells_fish_release_3
fish.armv7hl                                          3.1.0-3.1                                                                  shells_fish_release_3
fish.ppc64le                                          3.1.0-3.1                                                                  shells_fish_release_3
fish.src                                              3.1.0-3.1                                                                  shells_fish_release_3
fish.x86_64                                           3.1.0-3.1                                                                  shells_fish_release_3

# dnf upgrade fish
Dependencies resolved.
======================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                      Architecture             Version                          Repository                               Size
======================================================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 fish                                         x86_64                   3.1.0-3.1                        shells_fish_release_3                   2.7 M

[eclipseo]

Oh no:

# dnf -v repository-packages shells_fish_release_3 install fish
All matches were filtered out by modular filtering for argument: fish
Error: No packages marked for install.

So the problem is that Fedora ships a Modular package of fish, and standalone packages (contained within our OBS repository) can never have a higher priority than Modular packages.

I don't think OBS can create modular repositories, but I'll email the list tomorrow.

Fedora stopped shipping a Modular package of fish (It's still there bit won't be updated anymore). You can get Fish 3.1.0 on F31 by deactivating the module (sudo dnf module disable fish), uninstall and install fish from the standard repo ( sudo dnf remove fish; and sudo dnf install fish).

[zanchey]

OK, sounds like we've done all we can here.