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  • From: "Peter Polkinghorne (Staff)" <address@concealed>
  • To: Xavier Bachelot <address@concealed>, "address@concealed" <address@concealed>
  • Subject: RE: [en@sympa] Problem upgrading Sympa on RHEL 7
  • Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:55:55 +0000

Thanks Xavier,

You are correct and I think there was an issue with our mirrored EPEL which
my colleagues resolved.

Peter Polkinghorne
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-----Original Message-----
From: Xavier Bachelot <address@concealed>
Sent: 25 August 2023 17:19
To: Peter Polkinghorne (Staff) <address@concealed>;
address@concealed
Subject: Re: [en@sympa] Problem upgrading Sympa on RHEL 7

Hi Peter,

On 22/08/2023 17:51, Peter Polkinghorne (Staff) wrote:
> We have Sympa 6.2.68 installed from EPEL on RHEL 7.
>
> When we try updating with recently released 6.2.72
> (sympa-6.2.72-3.el7.x86_64, we hit a dependency issue.
>
> The new Sympa depends on multiwatch (multiwatch.x86_64 0:1.0.0-3.el7)
> which in turn depend on libev which is unavailable:
>
> Error: Package: multiwatch-1.0.0-3.el7.x86_64
> (Brunel_University_London_EPEL_3rd_Party_Packages_EPEL_7_-_x86_64)
>
>            Requires: libev.so.4()(64bit)
>
> While I know RHEL 7has less than a year of support left, we wish to
> tackle one thing as a time.
>
> So has anyone else had any luck in installing latest EPEL Sympa
> package on RHEL 7?
>
libev is available from the extras repository. You just have to enable this
repository and sympa will install just fine on EL7.

Regards,
Xavier



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