make debian-prepare-build-host fails on debian 12 bookworm, Package python-all-dev is not available, also python-sphinx

[shodanx2]

On a fresh debian 12 install

I ran the following

apt update
apt upgrade -y
apt install git sudo build-essential -y
git clone https://github.com/opencomputeproject/onie.git
cd onie/build-config

and here are the results

root@build-onie:/onie/build-config# make debian-prepare-build-host
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package python-all-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package python-sphinx is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  sphinx-doc sphinx-common

E: Package 'python-all-dev' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'python-sphinx' has no installation candidate
make: *** [Makefile:609: debian-prepare-build-host] Error 100
root@build-onie:/onie/build-config# 

[cpackham-atlnz]

Debian 12 has removed python2 so python-all-dev is no longer a thing. python3-dev is a thing but the other problem you'll face is that various things expect python2 to be available. I've addressed some of these with #1106 and #1105 (specifically 31b76f9) but I suspect there are a few more places expecting the older python.

You best bet for now at least is to build inside a debian 11 container.

This is a Dockerfile I'm using for tinkering with ONIE

FROM debian:11.11
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ENV DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true
RUN { echo 'tzdata tzdata/Areas select Etc'; echo 'tzdata tzdata/Zones/Etc select UTC'; } | debconf-set-selections
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
        autoconf \
        automake \
        autopoint \
        autotools-dev \
        bc \
        bison \
        build-essential \
        bzip2 \
        cpio \
        curl \
        dosfstools \
        efitools \
        efivar \
        fakeroot \
        flex \
        gawk \
        git \
        gnupg2 \
        help2man \
        jq \
        libefivar-dev \
        libelf-dev \
        libnspr4-dev \
        libnss3-dev \
        libnss3-tools \
        libpopt-dev \
        libssl-dev \
        libtool-bin \
        locales \
        mtools \
        ncurses-dev \
        pkg-config \
        python-all-dev \
        quilt \
        rsync \
        sbsigntool \
        stgit \
        texinfo \
        tree \
        unzip \
        uuid-dev \
        uuid-runtime \
        wget \
        xorriso

RUN sed -i -e 's/# en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen && \
    locale-gen

CMD ["bash"]

Save it somewhere

Build the docker image with

docker build /path/to/dir/with/dockerfile/ -t onie-build:$USER

Start a shell inside the docker container with

cd onie
docker run --rm  -it \
    -u `id -u`:`id -g`  \
    -v $PWD:$PWD \
    -v $HOME/.gitconfig:$HOME/.gitconfig:ro \
    -e HOME=$HOME  \
    -w $PWD/build-config \
    onie-build:$USER bash

then build as normal