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