RHEL5 Client packages missing on the builders (was: Re: [Fwd: Build Error (Job 396): wesnoth-1_2_8-1_el5 on fedora-5-epel])

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 10.10.2008 00:40, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:19:37 -0500 (CDT)
> "Jon Ciesla" <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
> 
>> Trying to build wesnoth for EPEL-5.  Had the branch created, copied
>> the bits from FC-6, and built.  The failure is below.  The crucial
>> part is in the job.log:
>>
>> ERROR: Bad build req: No Package Found for fribidi-devel. Exiting.
>>
>> Except that fribidi-devel exists in RHEL5.  The Fedora fribidi
>> maintainer is at a loss:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441847
>>
>> . . .as am I.
>>
>> I've been banging my head against this for while.  Any thoughts?
> 
> fribidi is in RHEL5 Client but not RHEL5 Server, though I thought EPEL
> built against a combined set of packages from the two...

Is anybody with the proper access to the builders is working on fixing 
this soon? Complains like this have shown up multiple times in the past 
few days.

Is this ticket meant for fixing this?
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/881

Not sure, but if I'd get that ticket in my inbox I wouldn't do anything 
as it seems a bit confusing to me ;-)

In case it helps: It long ago was agreed on to lot split EPEL in client 
and server add-on repos for RHEL5, as that would complicate things for 
packagers and users a lot; there was the idea to have a yum-plugin that 
automatically hides those epel packages that require things that are 
only part of the other RHEL5 variant -- but that was never written.

On the buildsys we afaik always had the packages from both client and 
server. When did that break? From the number of reports (that increased 
over the past few days afaics) it seems not that long ago...

Cu
knurd