On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 01:44:30PM +0000, Jamie Nguyen wrote: > Hi! > > libunwind package is now part of RHEL 7.2. It got retired from EPEL7 > three days ago (and incidentally the Release went backwards so upgrade > path is broken): > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288313 > > Unfortunately, that leaves CentOS users in a bit of a pickle, as > libunwind is no longer installable (unless they enable CR repository or > wait X weeks until CentOS 7.2 is released). > > NGINX depends on gperftools which depends on libunwind. So NGINX cannot > be installed on CentOS: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289073 > > I could rebuild NGINX without gperftools as a temporary solution, but > that would break NGINX for anyone using the google perftools module. If > I don't rebuild, then users can't even install NGINX in the first place. > > It seems I'm in between a rock and a hard place. By the way, I don't > actually plan on rebuilding NGINX without gperftools as that would break > it for existing users, and new users can enable CR (but that assumes the > user can figure out the solution themselves). > > So, in the general case of packages being retired from EPEL7 because > they have moved to RHEL, how do we avoid missing packages in the future?
Could make a compat package in EPEL7 be an option? This way you introduce back the version that was present without conflicting with RHEL. Pierre -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
