On 2 Feb 2026, at 17:52, Ilya Maximets wrote:

> New RPM has stricter requirements for the user/group management.
> Packages now have to specify new user and groups in the 'Provides'
> section if they are being created by this package, or have the
> 'sysusers' file that defines the users and groups accordingly.
>
> Without that it's not possible to install the built RPMs:
>
>   - package openvswitch-3.7.90-1.fc43.x86_64 from @commandline
>     requires user(openvswitch), but none of the providers can be
>     installed
>   - package openvswitch-3.7.90-1.fc43.x86_64 from @commandline
>     requires group(openvswitch), but none of the providers can be
>     installed
>
> As a solution for our current branches, let's simply add the
> provided user and groups to the 'Provides' section.  May need
> to migrate to the 'sysusers' method in the future releases.
>
> Moving CI to Fedora 43 in the process.  41 is EoL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>

Changes look good to me, the ‘linux rpm fedora’ is passing on my local instance.

Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>

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