Thanks for your help, I'll request packages like xmlstarlet.
For docbook-utils-pdf, I don't understand why redhat did drop it, and I wonder how can
EPEL publish only the missing part without breakage if redhat updates the 1st half.
Anyway, I'll also request it. Aside that, I'll try to learn and understand how I
can migrate my docbook sgml files to more modern techno.
For perl-QT, Fedora-30 still ships it:
https://pkgs.org/download/perl-Qt (v4.14.3-17), but
I know it's not well maintained.
In fact, I'm in the process of removing all scripting language like perl, python and
such from SystemImager keeping only bash code (wich is rock solid across ages) as those
language (perl, python, lua, ...) are not stable in the long term (need often port at each
release, libraries change or obsolecences, ...). Even the shebang is not consistent across
distros. Now, #!/usr/bin/python is broken on rhel-8/centos-8 which doesn't provide a
compatibility link.
Olivier.
Le 30/09/2019 12:53, « Petr Pisar » <ppisar(a)redhat.com> a écrit :
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:34:27AM +0000, LAHAYE Olivier wrote:
Unfortunately, I've discovered with centos-8 that many (I really
mean MANY)
packages have been dropped by redhat
Yes, that happens.
and epel as well.
EPEL did not drop anything. EPEL for a new RHEL always starts with an empty
repository. Any package appears there must be actively requested and packaged.
redhat dropped docbook-utils-pdf for example (while keeping
docbook-utils)
which I rely on to build the manual.
Either buy a RHEL subscription and report a request to Red Hat, or ask EPEL
packagers to package docbook-utils-pdf from the docbook-utils RHEL sources.
EPEL-8 has dropped xmlstarlet,
File a request to Fedora Bugzilla for adding it.
perl-Qt
perl-Qt is deader than a dead horse. It requires other libraries that
cannot be even built and many distributions including Fedora and Debian
removed it. Please use a different GUI toolkit.
-- Petr