[PM-1902] Pika problem on RHEL 9 - Bump the version to 1.2.1 also

[mayani]

The pika package is not available in RHEL 9. We need to explore if this was moved to another repo, or just removed.

The RPM spec file needs to be updated for Pegasus to be installable.

Reporter: @rynge
Watchers:
@papajim
@rynge
@vahi

[mayani]

Author: @vahi

assigned to george, since he did the move to PIKA amqp connector

[mayani]

Author: @papajim

I did a quick search and came across this article. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/06/07/thousands-pypi-and-rubygems-rpms-now-available-rhel-9

I pulled rockylinux:9.1 from docker hub and tested the following sequence of commands and it seems to work.

dnf install 'dnf-command(copr)'

dnf copr enable @copr/PyPI epel-9-x86_64

dnf install python-pika

@rynge Can you please check if this is an acceptable solution. If it's not maybe we can revert back to rely on our external packages.

[mayani]

Author: @rynge

Awesome! I spent way more time than I want to admin trying to figure out what happened to the package. This will work great. I will update the docs and close this.

[mayani]

Author: @papajim

@rynge Rajiv brought up an issue with ARM builds.
Basically the solution we have doesn't work with RHEL9 aarch64 builds. This is because the @copr/PyPI doesn't built packages for the aarch64 architecture. It's only for x86-64.

Maybe we could just revert back relying to our externals?
I don't think there's another way apart from this or using a python package manager like pip.

[mayani]

Author: @vahi

Do we need to support RHEL9.

RHEL9 is a platform that we would need to support in general. But do we need to support it for ARM architecture.

Pika is only built for x86_64 by default.

[mayani]

Author: @vahi

@papajimwill bump the version for pika to 1.2.1

[mayani]

Author: @vahi

@mayani did update the builds to pick from the externals . so the only questions is to bump the version of pika in the externals