[13_2_X] Improve discover method in cond2xml for read-only and patch releases

[francescobrivio]

PR description:

Backport of #42357

This PR fixes the way in which conddb retrieves the pluginUtilities_payload2xml.so library to dump payload content, especially for patch releases. Additionally, it fixes the Exception printout message in case "No XML converter is found..."

PR validation:

See master PR

Backport:

Backport of #42357

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @francescobrivio for CMSSW_13_2_X.

It involves the following packages:

• CondCore/Utilities (db)

@perrotta, @consuegs, @cmsbuild, @saumyaphor4252, @francescobrivio, @tvami can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@mmusich this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from Improve discover method in cond2xml for read-only and patch releases #42357

[tvami]

@cmsbuild , please test

[tvami]

backport of #42357

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-263d4e/33879/summary.html
COMMIT: 0d45f59
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_2_X_2023-07-25-1100/el8_amd64_gcc11
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/42364/33879/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 22 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 8 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3195634
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 3
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3195609
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 207 log files, 159 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[tvami]

+db

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_13_2_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_13_3_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[perrotta]

+1