R SIG Fedora - Mar 2012 - Trying to use current R2spec on RHEL.

Is there somewhere a succinct guide to just how much extra crud we need 
to install on RHEL to make use of EPEL packages?

[root at troll-1 noarch]# rpm -ivh R2spec-4.1.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
         fedora-packager is needed by R2spec-4.1.0-1.el6.noarch


[root at troll-1 noarch]# wget 
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm
[...]
[root at troll-1 noarch]# rpm -ivh fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
         bodhi-client is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
         fedora-cert = 0.5.9.4-1.el6 is needed by 
fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
         fedpkg >= 1.0 is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
         koji is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
         mock is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
         redhat-rpm-config is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
         rpmdevtools is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
         rpmlint is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
         ykpers is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch



Oy.


- Allen S. Rout

On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> 
> 
> Is there somewhere a succinct guide to just how much extra crud we need to
install on RHEL to make use of EPEL packages?
> 
> [root at troll-1 noarch]# rpm -ivh R2spec-4.1.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        fedora-packager is needed by R2spec-4.1.0-1.el6.noarch
> 
> 
> [root at troll-1 noarch]# wget
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm
> [...]
> [root at troll-1 noarch]# rpm -ivh fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        bodhi-client is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
>        fedora-cert = 0.5.9.4-1.el6 is needed by
fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
>        fedpkg >= 1.0 is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
>        koji is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
>        mock is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
>        redhat-rpm-config is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
>        rpmdevtools is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
>        rpmlint is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
>        ykpers is needed by fedora-packager-0.5.9.4-1.el6.noarch
> 
> 
> 
> Oy.

Otherwise known as "RPM Hell", which is why years ago, Fedora and RH
moved to 'yum' as the default package manager, since yum handles all of
the dependencies... :-)

Visit:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

for information on getting your system configured to use the EPEL.

Once you do that:

  yum install R2spec

as root, should be all that you need...no downloading RPM files locally and
dealing with circular dependencies via the CLI.

Cheers,

Marc Schwartz

On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:10 -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> Is there somewhere a succinct guide to just how much extra crud we
> need to install on RHEL to make use of EPEL packages? 
All the information are provided there:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
And basically, all you have to do is install the epel-release rpm:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

Regards,
Pierre