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

[Mike McGrath]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> 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
>

Yes its being worked on and no, people endlessly commenting on epel-devel
instead of the ticket or the infrastructure list doesn't make it get done
more quickly.

Again, from the begining, should have built it against CentOS.

	-Mike