Le 13/04/2021 à 18:57, František Šumšal a écrit : > Thanks a lot for all the responses! > > On 4/13/21 8:45 AM, Troy Dawson wrote: >> Yes, this has been discussed before on the list. And it's a rather sore >> point. >> >> There are several -devel packages that are available on INTERNAL RHEL >> repositories, but they are never released externally. >> Thus any RHEL customers are not able to use them to build things that >> depend on those libraries, such as your example, libuser. >> >> CentOS is a clone (warts and all) of RHEL, and thus doesn't have those >> -devel packages available either. >> >> It's been this way since the release of RHEL8. >> >> Has there been any progress? >> Yes, a bit. >> First, check to make sure there is a bugzilla open for whichever missing >> -devel package you need. >> Next, wait several months/years to see the debate go back and forth on >> the bug. It's possible it might make it in. >> >> Sorry for the sad tone, it's just a battle I've been waging since before >> RHEL8 was released. I've given up hope for them being released on >> RHEL8, though occasionally I am happily surprised. One of the packages >> I've been fighting for will be released in RHEL 8.4 ... but that's just >> 1 out of 4. > I see, thanks for the confirmation. Last time I came across this was around > RHEL 8.1 release, but back then I simply dismissed it since RHEL 8 was still > relatively new. It's kind of sad it hasn't improved much since then. > > I definitely agree with the "supportability" reason Johnny raised in the other > thread, but for -devel package it doesn't make much sense (at least to me). > > On 4/13/21 5:49 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> and see what the other board members think about the issue. I'll make >> sure the results make the minutes. >> >> This is an issue that I care about as a CentOS Project Board of >> Directors member. > Thanks a lot for this, Johnny, much appreciated! Good luck Johnny, nature abhors a vacuum, I personally solved the problem this way: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/distro/builder/x86_64/ https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/distro/builder/aarch64/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210414/7805eccf/attachment-0005.html>