Cellular Network Infrastructure

I looked into why the "install_repo_packages" test in repo-install-debian10 and 9 are currently failing for nightly.

This hopefully resolves itself tomorrow, but documenting what I found for future reference at least.

• the job attempts to install all packages available for the target architecture (x86_64 in jenkins)
• all packages depend on an osmocom-nightly package with a specific version (date of when packages were submitted)
• osmo-sip-connector-doc cannot be installed, because it depends on 1.0.0.202105270026, whereas all other packages depend on 1.0.0.202106020026
• looking at the repo dir shows that there are two packages:
  • osmo-sip-connector-doc_1.5.0.3.e7d0.202106020026_all.deb
  • osmo-sip-connector-doc_1.5.0.202105270026_all
• when OBS generates a new package, it deletes the old one
• but here, the -doc packages are in the "all" subdir for all architectures, and the second package comes from arm, where the builder is behind and osmo-sip-connector has the status "Scheduled"
• apt decided that the older package has a newer version (202105270026_all > 3)

Practical implications:

• users trying to install osmo-sip-connector-doc from nightly will have the same issue, unless they explicitly say which version should be installed

Possible workaround:

• if this issue persists, we could ignore that specific package here and here to make the test pass again