scylla node role: Ubuntu 20, if I select 2021.1.8 and in repo the latest is 2021.1.9 I can't get 2021.1.8 installed

[tarzanek]

Error seen:

10:12:36 fatal: [scylla-stage-us-central1-c-1]: FAILED! => {"cache_update_time": 1646125910, "cache_updated": false, "changed": false, "msg": "'/usr/bin/apt-get -y -o \"Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef\" -o \"Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold\"       install 'scylla-enterprise=2021.1.8*'' failed: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.\n", "rc": 100, "stderr": "E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.\n", "stderr_lines": ["E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."], "stdout": "Reading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nSome packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have\nrequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable\ndistribution that some required packages have not yet been created\nor been moved out of Incoming.\nThe following information may help to resolve the situation:\n\nThe following packages have unmet dependencies:\n scylla-enterprise : Depends: scylla-enterprise-server (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed\n                     Depends: scylla-enterprise-jmx (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed\n                     Depends: scylla-enterprise-tools (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed\n                     Depends: scylla-enterprise-tools-core (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed\n                     Depends: scylla-enterprise-kernel-conf (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed\n", "stdout_lines": ["Reading package lists...", "Building dependency tree...", "Reading state information...", "Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have", "requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable", "distribution that some required packages have not yet been created", "or been moved out of Incoming.", "The following information may help to resolve the situation:", "", "The following packages have unmet dependencies:", " scylla-enterprise : Depends: scylla-enterprise-server (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed", "                     Depends: scylla-enterprise-jmx (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed", "                     Depends: scylla-enterprise-tools (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed", "                     Depends: scylla-enterprise-tools-core (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed", "                     Depends: scylla-enterprise-kernel-conf (= 2021.1.8-0.20220106.fcdf103fd-1) but 2021.1.9-0.20220208.86e3ea4df-1 is to be installed"]}

[tarzanek]

see https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-enterprise/issues/2176
and use pinning workaround from it for specified version

[tarzanek]

alt. way besides pinning:

using dpkg get dependencies of meta package scylla-server
and then install all listed packages with explicit versions

[vladzcloudius]

Another option is to use aptitude. We already install a few additional packages we need so maybe installing aptitude would be so much of an issue if it would save us the hacking you need to do today.

Or use dpkg directly - someone said that it may be resolving dependencies better than apt.

[tarzanek]

another approach is https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-web-install/pull/40/files