[CentOS-devel] ppc64le. Team looking for opal-prd package

Tue Feb 16 13:28:52 UTC 2016
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

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On 16/02/16 13:43, Bill Buros wrote:
> From peers working with CentOS on Power8,
> 
> /"I am trying to install OPAL-PRD on cent-os. Do you know where to
> get opal-prd package ?"/
> 
> 
> Presently opal-prd is not available in the CentOS repos or in EPEL,
> but is expected in a future release of RHEL.
> 
> In the meantime, it is possible to build the rpm from source and
> install on CentOS.
> 
> Latest source rpm : 
> https://hegdevasant.fedorapeople.org/opal-prd/v5/opal-prd-5.1.13-1.fc22.src.rpm
>
>  Thanks to Vasant Hegde for pointer to files.

First question would be : what's the purpose of that package ?
As it's not in the upstream distro (yet), even if it's built, it will
not enter into the base/os nor updates repository. At the best, I'd
say extras, and then removed when the real package/version/release
will appear upstream.

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