Erlang compiled against a very new OpenSSL version (3.4.x) in Rocky9/RHEL9

[jorgegv]

Describe the bug

When doing a routine upgrade of a Rocky9 server with RabbitMQ server, upgrade of Erlang fails due to a missing dependency:

# dnf upgrade
Docker CE Stable - x86_64                                                      584 kB/s |  70 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64                                  22 MB/s |  23 MB     00:01    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64           2.0 kB/s | 2.5 kB     00:01    
InfluxData Repository - Stable                                                 1.5 MB/s | 163 kB     00:00    
modern-erlang-el9                                                              1.3 MB/s | 733 kB     00:00    
modern-erlang-el9-noarch                                                       573  B/s | 291  B     00:00    
modern-erlang-el9-source                                                       714  B/s | 291  B     00:00    
rabbitmq-el9                                                                   313  B/s | 291  B     00:00    
rabbitmq-el9-noarch                                                            987 kB/s | 1.2 MB     00:01    
rabbitmq-el9-source                                                            2.8 kB/s | 2.1 kB     00:00    
Rocky Linux 9 - BaseOS                                                         6.8 MB/s | 2.3 MB     00:00    
Rocky Linux 9 - AppStream                                                       19 MB/s | 8.4 MB     00:00    
Rocky Linux 9 - Realtime                                                       4.1 MB/s | 1.0 MB     00:00    
Rocky Linux 9 - Extras                                                          71 kB/s |  16 kB     00:00    
Error: 
 Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package erlang-27.3.3-1.el9.x86_64
  - nothing provides libcrypto.so.3(OPENSSL_3.4.0)(64bit) needed by erlang-27.3.4-1.el9.x86_64 from modern-erlang
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
# rpm -q openssl
openssl-3.2.2-6.el9_5.1.x86_64

Apparently, the updated Erlang has been compiled against OpenSSL 3.4, but the current version in Rocky 9 is still OpenSSL 3.2, and the upgrade fails due to unmet dependencies.

Reproduction steps

1. Set up a plain Rocky 9 machine
2. Try to install RabbitMQ server with the Zero Dependency Erlang option
3. Installation/upgrade fails

Expected behavior

Erlang should be compiled against the correct OpenSSL version, matghing that of the upstream distribution.

Additional context

No response

[michaelklishin]

A duplicate of #131.

[jorgegv]

Thanks and sorry for the noise, I searched for SSL and found no pending issues... I clearly did something wrong ;-)

[michaelklishin]

No worries, I understand that it's a serious issue that affected enough people.