[14.2] XRootd: version 5.7.2

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backport of #9550

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please test

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A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar for branch IB/CMSSW_14_2_X/master.

@aandvalenzuela, @iarspider, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.
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• Backported from XRootd: version 5.7.2 #9550

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Failed Tests: UnitTests
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-c56bcf/43255/summary.html
COMMIT: 1e69715
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_2_X_2024-12-04-1100/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmsdist/9551/43255/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Unit Tests

I found 2 errors in the following unit tests:

---> test TestFWCoreReflectionClassVersionUpdate had ERRORS
---> test GeometryMTDGeometryBuilderTestDriver had ERRORS

Comparison Summary

There are some workflows for which there are errors in the baseline:
2024.202001 step 1
The results for the comparisons for these workflows could be incomplete
This means most likely that the IB is having errors in the relvals.The error does NOT come from this pull request

Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 12 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 45
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3392103
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 495
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3391588
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 44 files compared)
• Checked 198 log files, 168 edm output root files, 45 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found