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fix(rpm): explicitly Provides user(name) to satisfy systemd unit Requires

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Diagnosing the persistent "Nothing to do" on v0.1.10 surfaced that
removing %attr(,,name) from %files wasn't enough. systemd-rpm-macros
ships its own rpm dep generator (/usr/lib/rpm/systemd.req) that parses
User=/Group= directives from every .service file the package ships
and emits Requires: user(NAME)/group(NAME) accordingly.

Rpmbuild log from v0.1.10 shows these Requires are still emitted even
after the %attr removal. Meanwhile the sysusers provides-generator
emits group(NAME) in both unversioned and versioned forms, but only
a versioned user(NAME) = <base64> when the u-line has GECOS/home/shell
fields. The asymmetry leaves Requires: user(NAME) unresolvable.

Add explicit Provides: user(NAME) back to both specs, with a comment
documenting the actual cause (systemd unit parsing, not file attrs)
so the next person touching these specs doesn't repeat the mistake.

Why monsoon didn't hit this: it creates its user in %pre via
groupadd/useradd (not sysusers.d), so no Provides are generated at
all — matching the Requires: user(monsoon) by luck of the rpm solver
treating unknown symbols as soft-fails for that path. Ours went through
the sysusers Provides code path and hit the asymmetry instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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rob thijssen
2026-04-16 15:30:55 +03:00
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@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ BuildRequires: systemd-rpm-macros
Requires(pre): shadow-utils Requires(pre): shadow-utils
Requires: systemd Requires: systemd
# systemd-rpm-macros ships a unit dep generator that parses User=/Group=
# from our .service file and emits Requires: user(cortex)/group(cortex).
# rpm's sysusers provides-generator emits the unversioned form for groups
# but only a versioned user(cortex) = <base64> for users with GECOS/home/
# shell. Provide the unversioned user(cortex) explicitly so dnf can resolve
# the auto-generated Requires. Without this, dnf5 silently filters the
# package and reports "Nothing to do".
Provides: user(cortex)
%description %description
Cortex is a Rust reverse-proxy that sits in front of multiple inference Cortex is a Rust reverse-proxy that sits in front of multiple inference
nodes (via neuron daemons) and presents a unified OpenAI and Anthropic nodes (via neuron daemons) and presents a unified OpenAI and Anthropic

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@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ BuildRequires: systemd-rpm-macros
Requires(pre): shadow-utils Requires(pre): shadow-utils
Requires: systemd Requires: systemd
# systemd-rpm-macros ships a unit dep generator that parses User=/Group=
# from our .service file and emits Requires: user(neuron)/group(neuron).
# rpm's sysusers provides-generator emits the unversioned form for groups
# but only a versioned user(neuron) = <base64> for users with GECOS/home/
# shell. Provide the unversioned user(neuron) explicitly so dnf can resolve
# the auto-generated Requires. Without this, dnf5 silently filters the
# package and reports "Nothing to do".
Provides: user(neuron)
%description %description
Neuron is a per-node daemon for cortex inference clusters. It discovers Neuron is a per-node daemon for cortex inference clusters. It discovers
local GPU hardware via nvidia-smi, manages inference harnesses (mistral.rs, local GPU hardware via nvidia-smi, manages inference harnesses (mistral.rs,