Hello!
I'm not sure if this has been already answered somewhere on this list, but I'm curious why the CentOS 8 repositories are missing certain build dependencies (although they're present in RHEL's internal repositories). This makes rebuilding some of the CentOS 8 packages a bit painful.
For example, let's try to rebuild util-linux:
``` $ podman run -it --rm centos:8 # rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-Media.repo # dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core ... # dnf --refresh --enablerepo * -y builddep util-linux Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8 CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 10 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 23 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 5.3 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - Debuginfo 1.6 MB/s | 27 MB 00:16 CentOS Linux 8 - Devel WARNING! FOR BUILDROOT USE ONLY! 18 kB/s | 13 kB 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 8.2 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 933 B/s | 257 B 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 741 kB/s | 504 kB 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 807 kB/s | 596 kB 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 2.1 MB/s | 2.0 MB 00:00 CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS - Source 120 kB/s | 384 kB 00:03 CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream - Source 271 kB/s | 991 kB 00:03 CentOS Linux 8 - Extras - Source 2.2 kB/s | 7.8 kB 00:03 CentOS Linux 8 - Plus - Source 1.7 kB/s | 5.0 kB 00:03 Package systemd-239-41.el8_3.x86_64 is already installed. No matching package to install: 'libuser-devel' Not all dependencies satisfied Error: Some packages could not be found. ```
Oh well, looks like we have to rebuild libuser as well:
``` # dnf --enablerepo * -y builddep libuser Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8 Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:14 ago on Tue Apr 13 10:36:39 2021. No matching package to install: 'openldap-servers' Not all dependencies satisfied Error: Some packages could not be found. ```
And apparently openldap, too.
I noticed that Davide from FB already come across this issue and filed it in RHBZ[0], where it was confirmed that the dependency is indeed present only in the internal RHEL buildroot repository - and after a quick test they still are:
# dnf --enablerepo rhel-buildroot search libuser-devel ... libuser-devel.i686 : Files needed for developing applications which use libuser libuser-devel.x86_64 : Files needed for developing applications which use libuser
Is there any reason why they aren't shipped in some CentOS repository or was there any progress to make them available?
Thank you!
Frantisek
[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868430