Re: Broken dependency for pg_activity on EL9

On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 01:55:38PM +0200, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> It seems the dependency of pg_activity on "python3.12-attrs" is currently
> broken:
>
> dnf install pg_activity
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:37 ago on Wed 03 Jun 2026 11:47:49 AM
> CEST.
> Error: Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
> - nothing provides python3.12-attrs needed by
> pg_activity-3.6.2-42PGDG.rhel9.8.noarch from rhel-9-pgs-common-rpms (try
> to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
> use not only best candidate packages)
>
> IIUC, the package has been renamed "python-attrs" in EL9 (not tested thought):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2058329
>
> I supposed this could be fixed there:
> https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/pgrpms.git/tree/rpm/redhat/main/common/pg_activity/main/pg_activity.spec#n53
>
> Regards,
>
>

Hi,

I have reported the same issue here (The issue has now been resolved):
https://github.com/pgdg-packaging/pgdg-rpms/issues/202

Thank you to Devrim for resolving the issue yesterday. I ran some tests this
morning, and everything seems to be working as expected.

--
Julian