[CentOS-devel] Missing devel packages (librest)

Wed Dec 15 20:18:03 UTC 2021
Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com>

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, at 14:16, Brian Stinson wrote:
> 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 at 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

Ermm, sorry about that, my URLs got translated:
https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=12950
and
https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/kojifiles/repos/c9s-build/latest/
respectively.

--Brian