From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: tim@dysinger.net
To: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #18561: postgresql16-devel rpm cannot be installed due to missing Perl-IPC-Run
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:16:37 -0400
Message-ID: <f6abcd80-8c6f-480c-a3cd-b6e9b4c19d21@dunslane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18561-07747d3320525e48@postgresql.org>
References: <18561-07747d3320525e48@postgresql.org>
On 2024-07-31 We 11:16 AM, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 18561
> Logged by: Tim Dysinger
> Email address:tim@dysinger.net
> PostgreSQL version: 16.3
> Operating system: RedHat 9, Alma Linux 9, Rocky Linux 9
> Description:
>
> If you grab a fresh RedHat 9 image and try to install PGDG rpms from your
> repository like so:
>
> dnf install -y
> https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-9-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rp...
> dnf install -y postgresql16-server postgresql16-devel
>
> It fails with a missing Perl IPC Run which is not available anywhere in the
> RedHat ecosystem as far as I can tell. I'm trying to create custom postgres
> extensions and package them as RPMs for distribution. For that to work I
> need to match against the official PGDG packages. I can't even compile the
> extensions against PGDG's RedHat packages right now. Please advise.
>
> ```
> 25.67 Error:
> 25.67 Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
> 25.67 - nothing provides perl(IPC::Run) needed by
> postgresql16-devel-16.3-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 from pgdg16
> 25.67 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or
> '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
> ```
>
> Thank you for your advice and help.
You need to enable Rocky's Code Ready Builder repo like this:
| dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb|
Not sure what the answer is for Alma/RH
cheers
andrew
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