apt resolving to wrong pve-headers instead of proxmox-headers on PVE 8.2

[stv.Bundesadmin]

Hi team,

i'm trying to install the broadcom niccli in order to run firmware updates.
Installing the required sliff leads to installing wrong headers (@jsterr - this is probably what leads to the "known issues" on https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Installation_NICCLI_unter_Proxmox_VE)

This is on latest PVE 8.2.2 with kernel 6.8.4-3-pve:

apt tries to install pve-headers-6.1 pve-headers-6.1.10-1-pve
but shouldn't that somehow resolve to proxmox-headers-6.8?

I guess there is some outdated metadata within apt packages somewhere?
Note - this is a completely fresh 8.2 installation, not upgraded from anything previous!

apt install ./sliff-dkms_229.0.150.0_all.deb
...
The following additional packages will be installed:
  build-essential cpp cpp-12 dkms dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-12 gcc gcc-12 libabsl20220623 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libaom3 libasan8
  libatomic1 libavif15 libc-dev-bin libc-devtools libc6-dev libcc1-0 libcrypt-dev libdav1d6 libde265-0 libdeflate0 libdpkg-perl libfakeroot libfile-fcntllock-perl libgav1-1 libgcc-12-dev
  libgd3 libgomp1 libheif1 libisl23 libitm1 libjbig0 liblerc4 liblsan0 libmpc3 libmpfr6 libnsl-dev libquadmath0 librav1e0 libstdc++-12-dev libsvtav1enc1 libtiff6 libtirpc-dev libtsan2
  libubsan1 libwebp7 libx265-199 libxpm4 libyuv0 linux-libc-dev lsb-release make manpages-dev pve-headers-6.1 pve-headers-6.1.10-1-pve rpcsvc-proto

 

[Ramalama]

yeah i seen that on another thread already, i think its exactly how you say, someone forgot to update the meta.

but if you install proxmox-headers-6.8 before dkms, will it still try to install pve-headers 6.1?
however, for the issue itself, you can remove the 6.1 headers afterwards i think, or at least you just waste some space, till someone from proxmox fixes that.

 

[stv.Bundesadmin]

yeah i seen that on another thread already, i think its exactly how you say, someone forgot to update the meta.

but if you install proxmox-headers-6.8 before dkms, will it still try to install pve-headers 6.1?
however, for the issue itself, you can remove the 6.1 headers afterwards i think, or at least you just waste some space, till someone from proxmox fixes that.

yes, i can confirm - if you run "apt install proxmox-headers-6.8" first, then it will not download the wrong pve-headers on installing sliff/dkms/niccli.

The Proxmox team will probably easily figure out what's carrying the outdated pve-headers metadata