CentOS/RHEL build requires failure for libpurple-devel

English Open Build Service (OBS)
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Just trying to build a package, and got it successfully building for openSUSE 11.2 first.

Then I wanted to make the build service build it for RHEL and CentOS (as I didn’t really know what difference this would make, I asked the service to build both).

The build failed with an expansion error:

nothing provides libpurple-devel >= 2.3.1

Now this confuses me, as the Red Hat Enterprise 5/CentOS 5 systems I have certainly have this package:

RHEL 5.4:

Name : libpurple-devel
Arch : i386
Version : 2.6.3
Release : 2.el5
Size : 215 k
Repo : rhel-x86_64-server-productivity-5
Summary : Development headers, documentation, and libraries for libpurple
License : GPLv2+ and GPLv2 and MIT
Description: The libpurple-devel package contains the header files, developer
: documentation, and libraries required for development of libpurple
: based instant messaging clients or plugins for any libpurple based
: client.

CentOS 5.4:

Name : libpurple-devel
Arch : i386
Version : 2.6.3
Release : 2.el5
Size : 1.1 M
Repo : installed
Summary : Development headers, documentation, and libraries for libpurple
URL : Pidgin, the universal chat client
License : GPLv2+ and GPLv2 and MIT
Description: The libpurple-devel package contains the header files, developer
: documentation, and libraries required for development of libpurple
: based instant messaging clients or plugins for any libpurple based
: client.

So, what are these RHEL/CentOS build machines that they don’t have standard packages?

Cheers,

John.

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$ osc ls -b CentOS:CentOS-5 -r standard -a x86_64 | fgrep libpurple-devel
libpurple-devel-2.0.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm

Perhaps CentOS-5 was released with libpurple-devel 2.0.2 and after release it was updated to 2.6.3?
Has CentOS “Service Packs” or something similar?

The thing is the OBS has a copy of CentOS-5 with libpurple 2.0.2… if you think that’s wrong comment it in the opensuse-buildservice mailing list.

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Well, I’ve since discovered that OBS has RHEL 5.1/CentOS 5.1 vs. the current versions, RHEL 5.4/CentOS 5.4.

RHEL 5.1 released 2007-11-07
RHEL 5.4 released 2009-09-02

I have raised a bug to hopefully get RHEL5/CentOS5 updated:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552468

I also raised a bug to get RHEL4 updated, as this fails to build my package too. OBS currently has RHEL 4.7 vs the current 4.8 - however in this case RHEL 4.7 does in reality have a new enough libpurple-devel, but this package somehow isn’t included in the OSC build config:

$ osc ls RedHat:RHEL-4 -b -r standard -a i586|grep -E "(pidgin|purple)"
pidgin-1.5.1-1.el4.i386.rpm

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552696