[CentOS-devel] freetype package missed in repo

Wed Aug 4 10:14:16 UTC 2021
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

On 04.08.21 03:33, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 7:49 PM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel
> <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder why this package not available anymore?
>>
>> # LANG=C yum reinstall freetype
>> Last metadata expiration check: 1:04:59 ago on Wed Aug  4 00:38:21 2021.
>> Installed package freetype-2.9.1-5.el8.x86_64 (from baseos) not available.
>> Error: No packages marked for reinstall.
>>
>> Any clues?
> 
> Because the CentOS 8.4 package is freetype-2.9.1-4, according to the
> local mirrors. Did you perhaps install that from a CentOS 8 Stream
> repo?
> 

Here my context: I am comparing two nodes
based on CS8 (Centos 8 Stream ). One have

freetype-2.9.1-5.el8.x86_64
and the other have
freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_3.1.x86_64

The mirror 
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/ 
shows freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_3.1.x86_64 has the latest.

I wonder where this version 2.9.1-5 is coming from? The node was
regularly installed with C8 and then swapped to CS8 ...


# LANG=C rpm -q freetype -i |head -17
Name        : freetype
Version     : 2.9.1
Release     : 5.el8
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Thu Mar 25 23:54:00 2021
Group       : System Environment/Libraries
Size        : 811895
License     : (FTL or GPLv2+) and BSD and MIT and Public Domain and zlib 
with acknowledgement
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed Dec  2 16:11:08 2020, Key ID 05b555b38483c65d
Source RPM  : freetype-2.9.1-5.el8.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon Nov 16 22:58:59 2020
Build Host  : x86-02.mbox.centos.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : CentOS Buildsys <bugs at centos.org>
Vendor      : CentOS
URL         : http://www.freetype.org
Summary     : A free and portable font rendering engine


I see it here

https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=408

but not on the mirrors ...

A retired package?

--
Leon