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• Unresolvable circular dependencies
  • Example
  • Explanation
  • How to fix
  • More info about the RUN and BUILD nodes

Unresolvable circular dependencies

Example

ERRO[0011][grapher] Unfixable circular dependency found:	{bpftool-6.6.2.1-2.azl3-RUN<Meta>} --> {systemd-devel-255-2.azl3-BUILD<Build>} --> {systemd-devel-255-2.azl3-RUN<Meta>} --> {grub2-rpm-macros-2.06-13.azl3-BUILD<Build>} --> {grub2-rpm-macros-2.06-13.azl3-RUN<Meta>} --> {bpftool-6.6.2.1-2.azl3-BUILD<Build>} --> {bpftool-6.6.2.1-2.azl3-RUN<Meta>}	error: cycle can't be resolved with prebuilt/PMC RPMs. Unresolvable

After extraction of the interesting part:

Unfixable circular dependency found:
{bpftool-6.6.2.1-2.<dist_tag>-RUN<Meta>} --> {systemd-devel-255-2.<dist_tag>-BUILD<Build>} -->
{systemd-devel-255-2.<dist_tag>-RUN<Meta>} --> {grub2-rpm-macros-2.06-13.<dist_tag>-BUILD<Build>} -->
{grub2-rpm-macros-2.06-13.<dist_tag>-RUN<Meta>} --> {bpftool-6.6.2.1-2.<dist_tag>-BUILD<Build>}

Explanation

This is a build-time dependency cycle. The toolkit doesn't allow circular build-time dependencies (circular run-time dependencies are allowed).

These errors may be better understood if read from the back:

• {grub2-rpm-macros-2.06-13.<dist_tag>-RUN<Meta>} --> {bpftool-6.6.2.1-2.<dist_tag>-BUILD<Build>}: bpftool (1) depends on grub2-rpm-macros (2) to build
• {systemd-devel-255-2.<dist_tag>-RUN<Meta>} --> {grub2-rpm-macros-2.06-13.<dist_tag>-BUILD<Build>}: grub2-rpm-macros (2) depends on systemd-devel (3) to build
• {bpftool-6.6.2.1-2.<dist_tag>-RUN<Meta>} --> {systemd-devel-255-2.<dist_tag>-BUILD<Build>}: systemd-devel (3) depends on bpftool (1) to build and that closes the cycle.

The logs print specific packages, not specs or SRPMs.

How to fix

The fix is to remove the dependency of one of the packages on the other. Ideas:

• Double-check the declared build-time dependencies of the packages (BuildRequires in the spec files) are actually necessary to build the package.
• Split one of the packages into a bootstrap and regular version, where the bootstrap doesn't create circular dependencies. Then have the other packages from the cycle depend on the bootstrap version. This happens in case of some compilers, which in newer version depend on themselves. Another example is our systemd package, which has its systemd-bootstrap counterpart.

More info about the RUN and BUILD nodes

These are nodes of the dependency graph created during the build. The RUN nodes represent a runnable package, while the BUILD nodes represent a package that needs to be built.

The dependencies are encoded by the edges:

• Run-time dependencies are the --> going from RUN nodes to other RUN nodes.
• Build-time dependencies are the --> going from RUN nodes to BUILD nodes.
• The {XXX-BUILD<Build>} --> {XXX-RUN<Meta>} edges represent the fact that in order to use package XXX at run-time, it needs to be built first.

Examples:

• {XXX-RUN<Meta>} --> {YYY-RUN<Build>}: XXX is a run-time dependencies of package YYY.
• {XXX-RUN<Meta>} --> {YYY-BUILD<Build>}: XXX is a build-time dependencies of package YYY.
• {XXX-BUILD<Build>} --> {XXX-RUN<Meta>}: XXX needs to be built before it can be used at run-time.

For more information about the build system, please check out How the Build System Works.

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