How do I find out what versions/packages are in the builders?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Aug 28 14:26:05 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:28:26PM +0200, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> We're trying to build collectd in EPEL 5.  It fails because the
>> version of libvirt is missing a symbol which was added relatively
>> recently.
>
> I had that same issue recently when building collectd at work. libvirt  
> on rhel5 has that symbol (virDomainBlockstats or something).
> The problem is that autoconf is compiling a test program against  
> libvirt, which fails because it can find -lxenstore. Adding xen-devel to 
> the BR of collectd fixes this, but this probably a bug in libvirt.

Yes, we tracked it down and in fact it's a bug in the RHEL5 libvirt
package (460138), with dependencies as you say.

I have now built collectd in the EL-5 branch.  A few other fixes were
needed too.

Rich.

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