Re: xdrlib3 install error on RHEL 8.10

[Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>]

Re-sending because my outbound email was broken apparently.

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025, Scott Mayhew wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Aug 2025, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2025-08-17 at 16:42 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > > Hi Jeff / Scott -
> > > 
> > > I'm setting up RHEL 8.10 test runners to test linux-5.4.y, and ran into
> > > this issue with the pynfs playbook:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > TASK [pynfs : Install xdrlib3]
> > > *****************************************************************************************************************
> > > task path:
> > > /home/cel/src/kdevops/buildbot-configs/playbooks/roles/pynfs/tasks/install-deps/redhat/main.yml:27
> > > fatal: [pynfs-nfsd]: FAILED! => {
> > >     "changed": false,
> > >     "cmd": [
> > >         "/usr/bin/python3",
> > >         "-m",
> > >         "pip.__main__",
> > >         "install",
> > >         "xdrlib3"
> > >     ]
> > > }
> > > 
> > > MSG:
> > > 
> > > stdout: Collecting xdrlib3
> > > 
> > > :stderr:   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
> > > xdrlib3 (from versions: )
> > > No matching distribution found for xdrlib3
> > > 
> > > 
> > > PLAY RECAP
> > > *************************************************************************************************************************************
> > > pynfs-nfsd                 : ok=26   changed=7    unreachable=0
> > > failed=1    skipped=21   rescued=0    ignored=0
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Weird. If you ssh into the box and run 'pip install xdrlib3', does it
> > work?
> 
> RHEL 8 uses Python 3.6.3, which still has xdrlib (which was deprecated
> in 3.11 and removed in 3.13).
> 
> If you run 'pip --verbose install xdrlib3', you'll see that it requires
> the python version to be between 3.7 and 4.0.
> 
> >  
> > -- 
> > Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> >