[R-sig-Fedora] Trying to use current R2spec on RHEL.

[Marc Schwartz]

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