[SOLVED] Package conflicts with dell repo enabled

[acastellano_sysadmin]

Hello everyone!

At our company we have several Dell servers runing Proxmox unde Debian Buster, today we noticed a problem when running a system upgrade:

apt-get dist-upgrade --dry-run
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Error!
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:
 libpve-guest-common-perl : Breaks: pve-container (< 3.1-4) but 3.0-22 is to be installed
                            Breaks: qemu-server (< 6.1-19) but 6.1-7 is to be installed
 libpve-storage-perl : Breaks: pve-container (< 3.1-2) but 3.0-22 is to be installed
                       Breaks: qemu-server (< 6.1-14) but 6.1-7 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

It is not happening in our hp servers, after checking that all our apt sources are the same in both dell and hp server and they are correct we have noticed about dell repo contaning Dell OpenManage packages:

deb http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/openmanage/910/stretch stretch main

There is no buster alternative for this repository and it does not provide any proxmox o quemu package but, after commenting this source, apt-get dist-upgrade works!

So, we have find the problem but we would like to know why this is happening. Anyone can help us?

BTW, we have downgraded dell's repo priority without positive results.

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

It's always hard to track such issues down - I usually try to 'manually' install the breaking packages (pve-container, qemu-server) (and abort before the installation continues) - eventually you en up with the package which is causing the conflict.

on a hunch I would guess that something in the dell repo depends on libcurl3

Maybe also try reaching out to dell for them to update their repositories (Buster has been released as Debian Stable close to one year now)

I hope this helps!

 

[acastellano_sysadmin]

Hi,

You were right, during dry-run upgrade libcurl3 is removed. We are going to follow this tutorial (https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/dell-openmanage-on-proxmox-6-x.57932/) in order to have Dell Omenmanage running in our servers.

Thank you!

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Glad you managed to find a workaround!
Thanks for sharing your solution - please mark the thread as 'SOLVED'

 

[acastellano_sysadmin]

Hi,

As soon as we try the workaround we will mark the thread as 'Solved'

 

[acastellano_sysadmin]

After triying the workaround we are able to upgrade our servers again.