[CASSANDRA-17765] RPM Installation on centos 7 is broken by CASSANDRA-17669

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.6, 4.1-beta1, 4.1
• Component/s: Packaging
• Bug Category: Packaging - Package Distribution
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 4.0.5

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/3b49283ef9049b35e41313081a2d2777cc0f2067

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• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Jeremiah Jordan

Authors

Brandon Williams

Reviewers

Michael Semb Wever

• Created: 21/Jul/22 16:13
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 15:22
• Resolved: 28/Oct/22 13:14

Description

With CASSANDRA-17669 adding use of "or" in the dependencies for the RPM so it can depend on java 8 or java 11 it broke installation on CentOS Linux 7.  This is bad because CentOS Linux 7 is the "current" release of CentOS Linux, version 8 was EOL'ed in favor of the new pre-release distribution model being used for CentOS Stream 8.

I don't know what the best answer is here, maybe making a CentOS 7 specific package that reverts back to just java 8 in the requirements?  But I think should needs to be done.

Issue Links

• causes: CASSANDRA-17880 RPM noboolean packages deployed in place of others
• depends upon: CASSANDRA-17766 Add centos 7 docker/build infra
• is caused by: CASSANDRA-17669 CentOS/RHEL installation requires JRE not available in Java 11
• is depended upon by: CASSANDRA-17766 Add centos 7 docker/build infra
• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-17791 C* 4.0.5 RPM installation fails due to JRE 8/11 fix for CASSANDRA-17669