Installation fails via RPM / DNF on Fedora 43

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I’ve been using urbackup server for a few years on my Fedora server box (currently running Fedora 43)

Following the steps documented here: UrBackup - Download UrBackup for Windows, GNU/Linux or FreeBSD

To Install package home:uroni / urbackup-server

Instructions are as below:

For Fedora 43 run the following as root:
dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:uroni/Fedora_43/home:uroni.repo

dnf install urbackup-server

The dnf config-manager completes successfully:

dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=``https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:uroni/Fedora_43/home:uroni.repo

but attempting to install the package fails:

dnf install urbackup-server
Updating and loading repositories:
UrBackup (Fedora_43)                                                                                                                                                         100% |   4.2 KiB/s |   1.6 KiB |  00m00s
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: conflicting requests

package urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.aarch64 from home_uroni does not have a compatible architecture

nothing provides group(urbackup) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.aarch64 from home_uroni

nothing provides user(urbackup) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.aarch64 from home_uroni

nothing provides ld-linux-aarch64.so.1()(64bit) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.aarch64 from home_uroni

nothing provides ld-linux-aarch64.so.1(GLIBC_2.17)(64bit) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.aarch64 from home_uroni

nothing provides libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.17)(64bit) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.aarch64 from home_uroni

nothing provides group(urbackup) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.x86_64 from home_uroni

nothing provides user(urbackup) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.x86_64 from home_uroni
You can try to add to command line:
–skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages

it seems like packages from the wrong architecture are being selected by default? (my machine is x86_64 but aarch64 packages are being selected)

if I try to install x86_64 packages explicitly, I get another different error:

dnf install urbackup-server.x86_64
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: conflicting requests

nothing provides group(urbackup) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.x86_64 from home_uroni

nothing provides user(urbackup) needed by urbackup-server-2.5.35.0-1.1.x86_64 from home_uroni
You can try to add to command line:
–skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages

I do have a urbackup user and group, although I’m not sure if this was manually created (by me) in the past or as a result of a prior install.

id urbackup
uid=964(urbackup) gid=964(urbackup) groups=964(urbackup)

I’m going to try installing Fedora 42 or Fedora Rawhide packages and report back.

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This seems very similar to an issue reported against a different project here: opensuse16 rpm packaging - nothing provides 'group(proxysql)' · Issue #5183 · sysown/proxysql · GitHub

The fix may be as simple as adding Provides: group(urbackup) to the .spec file here: File urbackup-server.spec of Package urbackup-server - openSUSE Build Service

I’m going to experiment with building this locally and report back

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OpenSUSE build should also allow you to fork the project and edit the file in the browser and then it builds it for you

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Ah, thanks @uroni

I’ll give this a try first

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Adding the following to urbackup-server.spec fixes installation on Fedora 43

# Required to prevent "nothing provides group(urbackup) needed by urbackup-server" errors during install
Provides: group(urbackup)
# Required to prevent "nothing provides user(urbackup) needed by urbackup-server" errors during install
Provides: user(urbackup)

Confirmed via my branch of the openSUSE build service project: Revisions of urbackup-server - openSUSE Build Service

@uroni I submitted a request to have the change made upstream here: Request 1333643: Submit home:uroni/urbackup-server - openSUSE Build Service