On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, at 13:28, IBBoard wrote:
On 14/12/2021 22:02, Mike Rochefort wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 3:55 PM IBBoard centosdevel@ibboard.co.uk wrote:
Is this normal? Does anyone know why there would be binary/library packages but not devel packages published?
The shipping of devel packages can alter a package's ABI support guidance[0].
Ah, so standard RHEL/CentOS practice is to provide libraries for internal dependencies without supporting building against them? I hadn't realised. I'm used to every package in a distro having a devel.
It used to be there, so I don't know what changed. Maybe the move from CentOS8 to Streams?
I might request the devel package, but given that I'm just building a small Twitter app with a low CentOS-based audience then it seems like quite a large commitment to put on CentOS to support building against the library.
If you're working on something of your own, you're also always free to download those -devel packages from the buildsystem (even for things that are not in one of the published repositories on the mirrors).
All of the RPMs are available on the build page you found earlier: https://kojihub.stream.rdu2.redhat.com/koji/buildinfo?buildID=12950
devel packages are also included in the latest buildroot repos available here: https://kojihub.stream.rdu2.redhat.com/kojifiles/repos/c9s-build/latest/
--Brian