bird redhat repo missing rpms for 1.6.3

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Martin Huněk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tested that 1.6.3 on CentOS 7 and that RPM is not usable on it.
> 
> The output of yum (in Czech):
> Řešení závislostí...
> --> Kontrola transakce spuštěna
> ---> Balíček bird.x86_64 0:1.6.0-1 bude aktualizován
> ---> Balíček bird.x86_64 0:1.6.3-1 bude novou aktualizací
> --> Zpracování závislostí: libtinfo.so.6()(64bit) pro balíček: 
> bird-1.6.3-1.x86_64
> --> Zpracování závislostí: libncurses.so.6()(64bit) pro balíček: 
> bird-1.6.3-1.x86_64
> --> Řešení závislostí dokončeno
> Chyba: Balíček: bird-1.6.3-1.x86_64 (knot)
>            Vyžaduje: libtinfo.so.6()(64bit)
> Chyba: Balíček: bird-1.6.3-1.x86_64 (knot)
>            Vyžaduje: libncurses.so.6()(64bit)
>  Pro obejití problému můžete zkusit volbu --skip-broken
> 
> Summary in english: RPM requires the libtinfo.so.6 and libncurses.so.6 which 
> are not present in CentOS 7.
> 
> Same probably goes for the RHEL 7, long story short it is the fedora only 
> repo.
> 
> As for the EPEL repository and outdated version there, there is an bug report 
> [1] for updating from the 1.4.5 to 1.6.3. However there is the requirement of 
> 100% forward compatibility of configuration. If it fulfills that, it would be 
> great to try to reopen that bug in Red Hat Bugzilla.

Well, there are some non-compatible configuration changes between 1.4.x and 1.6.x,
so i see that it does not fulfill EPEL guidelines.

Perhaps it would be possible to install also newer libtinfo/libncurses from
Fedora?

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