Thanks, Dave and Adrian. Sorry, Adrian, I misunderstood your initial reply and thought you meant you had built from SRPM. I understand now that you built from source.
I might try tweaking the .spec file a little like I had to do on brltty 5.6, but building from source isn't too bad. And Dave, yes, I certainly agree with the complexity of building on various targets. If, while building on Centos 7, I find some requirements in the spec file that I can relax a little to make both Centos and Fedora happy, I'll definitely share them. Take care, Keith -----Original Message----- From: BRLTTY <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave Mielke Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:19 AM To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty 6 and Centos 7 [quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2019/02/27 at 10:47 -0600] >I was hoping to build or install Brltty 6 on my Centos 7 system. I grabbed >the main RPM (brltty main package, binary 64-bit RPM) and did a --test >--upgrade to see what it might need. It looks like, among other things, it >wants glibc 2.27. The current Centos 7.5 latest version of glibc is 2.17. glibc-2.17 is rather old. The requirement for 2.27 would be because that'd have been the version of glibc on the system where the rpm was built. I'm quite sure that 2.17 would be okay, but, without a system old enough to verify that, it's hard to be sure. >Were these RPMs intended for Fedora? The rpms were built on a recent Fedora system. >I know the download page mentions both Fedora and Redhat, but I'm wondering if >that text is more geared toward the RPM format rather than the specific >packages. It has nothing to do with the rpm format. Actually, the Red Hat reference comes from a long time ago when Fedora was known as Red Hat Linux. CentOS, which, ultimately, is a copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, would also support the rpms. the problem is that those releases tend to be so old that any rpm built for a more recent system might, as you've discovered, have dependency issues. I suppose that we could maintain an older system for building the rpms, but the insentive to do so isn't very great. I think the right approach would be to ask the CentOS people to build the rpms for their distribution so that they'd get picked up by their package management process. >Or is there a way to get these RPMs to install on Centos 7? You could always specify the option to ignore the dependency issues. >I'm happy to build from source RPM again but would love to skip that step if >there's a way on my current OS to use the binary packages. I don't have a CentOS system, or even an old enough Fedora system, on which to experiment. You could always not use the rpms and build from the source tarball. -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
