Re: Missing -devel packages?

[Clifford Perry <cperry rackspace com>]

I can not give an offical RedHat answer, but to my understanding RedHat
left out various rpm packages, including multiple -devel rpms for two
reasons, one is so that they are not releasing a bloated rpm distro and
the second is that if you are paying for support services, you should be
able to get support for everything that comes with the distro, I think
RedHat removed various -devel rpms to limit their liabilities for
support. So if you want to use imap-devel or unixODBC-devel you will
have to grab the src rpm and recompile and then install the -devel rpm
package you built (try getting support from RedHat for a custom compiled
rpm :)

Cliff. 

> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:25:03 +0100
> From: "Tom G. Christensen" <tgc statsbiblioteket dk>
> Subject: 	
> To: taroon-list redhat com
> Reply-To: taroon-list redhat com
> 
> The php src.rpm depends on imap-devel and unixODBC-devel none of which I can
> find on the Taroon ISOs or through rhn.
> 
> The spec files for imap and unixODBC correctly defines -devel packages and
> rebuilding the src.rpms also creates those packages.
> 
> The same thing goes for beecrypt-devel which is needed to build apt-get. To
> get the missing package you have to rebuild the beecrypt src.rpm.
> 
> Why are these -devel packages not included in the distribution?
> 
> -tgc
> 
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