Broken deps in EPEL 4

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Mon Jan 14 17:05:07 UTC 2008


> Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>> On 14.01.2008 17:06, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>>>> On 14.01.2008 13:59, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>>>>>> pcapdiff - 0.1-2.el4.noarch
>>>>>> Needs pcapy, which won't built due to lack of libpcap-devel on ppc.
>>>>>> Is
>>>>>> there a remedy, or set ExcludeArch?
>>>>> I'd say ExcludeArch is fine in this case.
>>>> Ok, great. Thanks. Do I need to do anything with pcapdiff, as it's
>>>> noarch?
>>> Afaik you need to ExcludeArch PPC there as well:
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-February/msg00068.html
>>
>> Actually, it looks like I needed to BR libpcap, not libpcap-devel, in
>> EL-4.   Oops.  We'll see how this goes.
>
> Or you could BR: /usr/include/pcap.h which would work everywhere.

Or, after trial and error, finding (I think) that pcapy won't build on
Python 2.3.

http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-4-epel/37873-pcapy-0.10.5-1.el4/

Might just have to pull it and pcapdiff from EL-4.

> Paul.
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