[CentOS] Missing Dependency python-yubico

Tue Jan 10 20:17:35 UTC 2017
Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com>

On 01/10/17 13:12, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hey all, I'm trying to install the fedora-packager group so that I can
>> build Fedora source packages into RPMs that I can install.  I'm getting
>> this error:
>>
>> Error: Package: fedora-packager-0.6.0.1-1.el6.noarch (epel)
>>            Requires: python-yubico
>> <SNIP>
>> [root at peach ~]# yum install python-yubico
>> <SNIP>
>> No package python-yubico available.
>>
>>
>> Do you suppose that maybe this is a typo where python-yubico was typed
>> instead of python-yubikey?  When I google for python-yubico Google
>> suggests python-yubikey instead.  But maybe not!  RPM Search turns up
>> python-yubico packages for Fedora 2[234] for x86_64, and CentOS 7.3 for
>> x86_64 and finds no hits for python-yubikey.  Maybe the fedora-packager
>> group only works on CentOS 7?
>>
>> I'm so confused ;-)
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can solve this issue?  Is there
>> another way to build source packages into RPM packages that I can install?
>>
>> CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
>>
>> Linux peach.patch 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 18 19:25:05
>> UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
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>>    ^ ^  Mark LaPierre
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>>
> 
> This is more properly an EPEL question. But I am having the same issue.
> 
> There seems to have been a small rash of package releases on EPEL 6 that
> have requirements only satisfied by RHEL 7 and friends.
> 
> I have to ask though. If you just want to rebuild Fedora RPMs for your
> Centos, you do not need fedora-packager, you just need rpmbuild (in
> rpm-build).
> 
> Tony Schreiner

Thanks Tony,  I'll see if I can figure out how to build RPM packages
from source packages without fedora-packager.  I hope there's not a crap
load of black art and fringe science involved.


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