bird redhat repo missing rpms for 1.6.3

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:46:58AM +0200, Stefan Plug wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> forgive me for my ignorance, but I just compiled 1.6.3-1 on a scientific linux 6.8 machine with ncurses 5.7 and installed that RPM on a centos7
> machine with ncurses 5.9 and it all seems to work just fine.
> 
> What am I missing here?

Hi

We just fixed missing 1.6.3 in our RedHat/Fedora repo:
http://bird.network.cz/?download&tdir=redhat/

I am not familiar with ecosystem of RPM distributions, i don't know
whether such packages are usable outside of Fedora.

W.r.t. ncurses6 - BIRD does not really care about ncurses version,
could be compiled with probably 20 years old one. When compiling from
source code the available curses library is selected. And a compiled
binary references a specific name and a major version against which
it was compiled.

Sometimes it is possible to cheat that by adding symlink from newer
library to actual installed older library.


> On 17.05.2017 15:20, Stefan Plug wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > is there any news on 1.6.3 for CentOS? I'm currently running CentOS 7 :( does this really mean no more bird updates?
> > I am currently running a patched 1.6.2 (bird-1.6.2_29_g7eec398-1) and I would like to go back to the official release some time again.
> > 
> > greetings,
> > 
> > Stefan
> > 
> > 
> > On 21.02.2017 14:37, Ruben Herold wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 02:02:55PM +0100, Martin Huněk wrote:
> >>  Hi Martin,
> >>>
> >>> for fedora there is the 1.6.3 version in EPEL repository. For RedHat/CentOS 
> >>> there is dependency problem even for 1.6.2 - the ncurses6 is missing in these 
> >>> systems.
> >>
> >> thx for the feedback that makes sensė. So this repo seems to me unusable
> >> anymore. RedHat/CentOS will not get ncurses6 after the next major
> >> release. Also there will be no current bird for RedHat/CentOS 6 and 7 
> >> anymore. 
> >>
> >>
> >>         Ruben


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