On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Martin Huněk wrote: > Hi, > > I've tested that 1.6.3 on CentOS 7 and that RPM is not usable on it. > > The output of yum (in Czech): > Řešení závislostí... > --> Kontrola transakce spuštěna > ---> Balíček bird.x86_64 0:1.6.0-1 bude aktualizován > ---> Balíček bird.x86_64 0:1.6.3-1 bude novou aktualizací > --> Zpracování závislostí: libtinfo.so.6()(64bit) pro balíček: > bird-1.6.3-1.x86_64 > --> Zpracování závislostí: libncurses.so.6()(64bit) pro balíček: > bird-1.6.3-1.x86_64 > --> Řešení závislostí dokončeno > Chyba: Balíček: bird-1.6.3-1.x86_64 (knot) > Vyžaduje: libtinfo.so.6()(64bit) > Chyba: Balíček: bird-1.6.3-1.x86_64 (knot) > Vyžaduje: libncurses.so.6()(64bit) > Pro obejití problému můžete zkusit volbu --skip-broken > > Summary in english: RPM requires the libtinfo.so.6 and libncurses.so.6 which > are not present in CentOS 7. > > Same probably goes for the RHEL 7, long story short it is the fedora only > repo. > > As for the EPEL repository and outdated version there, there is an bug report > [1] for updating from the 1.4.5 to 1.6.3. However there is the requirement of > 100% forward compatibility of configuration. If it fulfills that, it would be > great to try to reopen that bug in Red Hat Bugzilla.
Well, there are some non-compatible configuration changes between 1.4.x and 1.6.x, so i see that it does not fulfill EPEL guidelines. Perhaps it would be possible to install also newer libtinfo/libncurses from Fedora? -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
