I wanted to install the latest Subversion, version 1.5.1, on CentOS 5. I
knew it wouldn't be in the CentOS repos (although I checked anyway) so I
went looking in Fedora Rawhide and pulled down the SRPM I found there. I
attempted to build it and it failed due to a missing "perl-devel" package.
Some investigation indicates that somewhere in Fedora's history the headers
and development utilities in Perl got broken out into a separate
subpackage. It looks like this happened at 5.8.8-15.
This is mostly a heads-up to others that might run into this, but I'm
wondering what the best way to deal with it is. Should I comment out the
BuildReq, or create a virtual package that provides perl-devel and depends
on the existing perl package?
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07-30-2008, 08:42 PM
Johnny Hughes
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Kenneth Porter wrote:
I wanted to install the latest Subversion, version 1.5.1, on CentOS 5. I
knew it wouldn't be in the CentOS repos (although I checked anyway) so I
went looking in Fedora Rawhide and pulled down the SRPM I found there. I
attempted to build it and it failed due to a missing "perl-devel"
package. Some investigation indicates that somewhere in Fedora's history
the headers and development utilities in Perl got broken out into a
separate subpackage. It looks like this happened at 5.8.8-15.
This is mostly a heads-up to others that might run into this, but I'm
wondering what the best way to deal with it is. Should I comment out the
BuildReq, or create a virtual package that provides perl-devel and
depends on the existing perl package?
change perl-devel to perl
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07-30-2008, 09:02 PM
Charlie Brady
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Kenneth Porter wrote:
I wanted to install the latest Subversion, version 1.5.1, on CentOS 5.
...
This is mostly a heads-up to others that might run into this, but I'm
wondering what the best way to deal with it is. Should I comment out the
BuildReq, or create a virtual package that provides perl-devel and depends on
the existing perl package?
I would just rpmbuild with --nodeps.
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07-30-2008, 09:29 PM
Manuel Wolfshant
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On 07/31/2008 12:02 AM, Charlie Brady wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Kenneth Porter wrote:
I wanted to install the latest Subversion, version 1.5.1, on CentOS 5.
...
This is mostly a heads-up to others that might run into this, but I'm
wondering what the best way to deal with it is. Should I comment out
the BuildReq, or create a virtual package that provides perl-devel
and depends on the existing perl package?
I would just rpmbuild with --nodeps.
Wrong approach. Apply Johnny's advice. Or be polite and modify the spec
to distinguish between building on fedora >=7 or on Centos (RHEL).
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07-30-2008, 11:40 PM
Kenneth Porter
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--On Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:29 AM +0300 Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
Wrong approach. Apply Johnny's advice. Or be polite and modify the spec
to distinguish between building on fedora >=7 or on Centos (RHEL).
Something along the following line should do:
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07-31-2008, 12:48 AM
Dag Wieers
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:29 AM +0300 Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
Wrong approach. Apply Johnny's advice. Or be polite and modify the spec
to distinguish between building on fedora >=7 or on Centos (RHEL).
Something along the following line should do:
Since the subversion people never report releases on freshmeat, I often
find out that a new release is made by people informing me, or by accident
(like now).
I have updated my subversion package to 1.5.1. But only on EL5, for EL4
and older there is a problem with libneon (and SSL functionality). You
should be able to pull it from RPMforge tomorrow during the day.
Kind regards,
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07-31-2008, 12:37 PM
Kenneth Porter
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--On Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:48 AM +0200 Dag Wieers <dag@centos.org>
wrote:
Since the subversion people never report releases on freshmeat, I often
find out that a new release is made by people informing me, or by
accident (like now).
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07-31-2008, 01:42 PM
Dag Wieers
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:48 AM +0200 Dag Wieers <dag@centos.org> wrote:
Since the subversion people never report releases on freshmeat, I often
find out that a new release is made by people informing me, or by
accident (like now).
Because it would be hell to track 4000 other projects like that. Freshmeat
is a good centralised system to track new releases of Open Source
software. It would be nice of they used it as well.
Besides, anyone can report a new release so it does not necessarily need
to be done by the subversion release team (although that would be ideal).
Kind regards,
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07-31-2008, 02:15 PM
Kenneth Porter
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--On Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:42 PM +0200 Dag Wieers <dag@centos.org>
wrote:
Because it would be hell to track 4000 other projects like that.
Freshmeat is a good centralised system to track new releases of Open
Source software. It would be nice of they used it as well.
Besides, anyone can report a new release so it does not necessarily need
to be done by the subversion release team (although that would be ideal).
Interesting. I'd always thought Freshmeat was a hosting site, not an index.
I'll post to subversion-devel to let them know they need to post an update.
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08-04-2008, 08:49 PM
Kenneth Porter
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On Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:29 AM +0300 Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
Wrong approach. Apply Johnny's advice. Or be polite and modify the spec
to distinguish between building on fedora >=7 or on Centos (RHEL).
Something along the following line should do:
I supplied this as a proposed patch to Rawhide and was told that:
Raw Hide spec files are not designed to be built on any distro other than
Raw Hide; you need to fork the spec and keep distro-specific hacks in the
fork.
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457334>
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