Bug 1765844

Summary:	protobuf-python3 missing from RHEL/CentOS 8
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Denis Arnaud <denis.arnaud_fedora>
Component:	protobuf	Assignee:	Adrian Reber <areber>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Chao Ye <cye>
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Version:	8.2	CC:	carl, cye, dawson, jwboyer, orion, pviktori, skozina
Target Milestone:	rc	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release:	8.0
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Description Denis Arnaud 2019-10-26 17:38:51 UTC

Description of problem:
protobuf (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/protobuf) normally generates, among other sub-packages, protobuf-devel and protobuf-compiler. Those latter are however missing from RHEL/CentOS 8, even with EPEL enabled

Additional info:
A ticket has been opened for Release Engineering (https://pagure.io/epel/issue/90). However, I am not sure of the right process. Do not hesitate to point to the right way to require new sub-packages and/or packages for RHEL/CentOS 8.

Comment 1 Denis Arnaud 2019-10-27 14:44:32 UTC

The packages are available in Code Ready Builder (CRB) (on RHEL) / PowerTools (on CentOS). For the record (as I may not be the only one wondering on how to get those packages):

 $ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools # CodeReadyBuilder
 $ sudo dnf -y install protobuf-devel protobuf-compiler

That bug can be closed.

Comment 2 Denis Arnaud 2019-10-27 15:42:45 UTC

As a matter of fact, the Python bindings for Protobuf are missing. On RHEL/CentS 7, that sub-package was named protobuf-python, and on Fedora rawhide, it is named python3-protobuf.

Could you re-generate the protobuf sub-packages, so as to include (at least) the Python bindings?

Comment 7 Chao Ye 2020-03-31 01:34:01 UTC

Verified on RHEL-8.2.0-20200310.0, Snapshot-3.0:
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[root@hp-dl380g10-01-vm-03 ~]# dnf info python3-protobuf
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Available Packages
Name         : python3-protobuf
Version      : 3.5.0
Release      : 7.el8
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 554 k
Source       : protobuf-3.5.0-7.el8.src.rpm
Repository   : beaker-AppStream
Summary      : Python 3 bindings for Google Protocol Buffers
URL          : https://github.com/google/protobuf
License      : BSD
Description  : This package contains Python 3 libraries for Google Protocol Buffers

Close as CURRENTRELEASE.

Comment 8 Denis Arnaud 2020-04-03 09:31:57 UTC

Could anyone indicate how to make those packages available on CentOS 8?

Comment 9 Chao Ye 2020-04-03 10:04:38 UTC

(In reply to Denis Arnaud from comment #8)
> Could anyone indicate how to make those packages available on CentOS 8?

I'm not sure how CentOS inherit packages from RHEL, but it seems python3-protobuf is located in CentOS Devel repo, instead of AppStream.
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/Devel/x86_64/os/Packages/

Comment 12 Carl George 🤠 2020-04-15 02:45:17 UTC

CentOS Stream has python3-protobuf in the AppStream repository.

CentOS Linux is currently still shipping python3-protobuf in the Devel repository, but at some point in the future that will follow suit and move to AppStream.