[CentOS] where are all the Redhat 8 -devel packages?

Phil Wyett philwyett at kathenas.org
Thu Jul 4 04:39:48 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 19:12 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I'm probably missing something really simple.
> 
> I've installed an RH8 IAM in AWS and I'm trying to build packages on
> it. 
> I've noticed there are many *-devel packages that I cannot install:
> 
> ########################################
> [ec2-user at site1-vpn ~]$ sudo yum install trousers-devel
> Last metadata expiration check: 1:10:41 ago on Thu 04 Jul 2019
> 01:01:14 
> AM UTC.
> No match for argument: trousers-devel
> Error: Unable to find a match
> ########################################
> 
> However, if I download trousers-0.3.14-2.el8.src.rpm from Redhat and
> I 
> build it on my RH8 instance, it builds the -devel package:
> 
> ########################################
> Wrote: 
> /home/ec2-user/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/trousers-0.3.14-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> Wrote: 
> /home/ec2-user/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/trousers-lib-0.3.14-
> 2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> Wrote: 
> /home/ec2-user/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/trousers-static-0.3.14-
> 2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> Wrote: 
> /home/ec2-user/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/trousers-devel-0.3.14-
> 2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> Wrote: 
> /home/ec2-user/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/trousers-debugsource-0.3.14-
> 2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> Wrote: 
> /home/ec2-user/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/trousers-debuginfo-0.3.14-
> 2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> Wrote: 
> /home/ec2-user/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/trousers-lib-debuginfo-0.3.14-
> 2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ########################################
> 
> Same issue for json-c and json-c-devel and other packages.
> 
> What's going on, what is the little detail I'm totally missing?
> 
> I've checked the repositories in yum, I think everything important
> is 
> enabled.
> 

Hi,

No, you are not missing anything. -devel packages are missing. Not sure
the reasoning, but the slogan "Conquer Complexity" is right, it has
been and is far more now for developers who they claim to have released
an OS that allows you to just develop. What also confuses me with all
the slogans is that Python is popular with developers, but we do not
get the linter in the repos. ;-)

I am referring a lot to the page below to see what is available and
building other packages in a lower priority ('cost' greater than
default 1000) repo so I can use the devel packages, but pick up the
distro libs and runtimes from RHEL 8 repos when installs are done. I
call it my vendor missing repo. :-D

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/package_manifest/index

Regards

Phil

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