Description of problem: The package uboot-tools seems to be missing in the fedora EPEL 7 repositories. The pkgdb lists it as existing https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/uboot-tools/ but in https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/uboot-tools it states "none" and it can not be found using yum in the epel7 repository. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): epel 7 How reproducible: Very. Try installing uboot-tools with epel7 active. Steps to Reproduce: 1. enable epel7 repository in Centos7 2. yum install uboot-tools Actual results: package can not be found Expected results: package should exist and be installed Additional info:
There is very little sense in providing uboot-tools in EPEL, its primary purpose is to provide U-Boot binaries for ARM machines and there is EPEL (or CentOS) for ARM.
Yes and no, of course EL7 is not intended to run on arm hardware, but many people develop for arm hardware and for them it would indeed be beneficial to have the ability to create u-boot images.
yes, it make sense, I'll look into it, but currently we are blocked by missing dtc in RHEL-7 or EPEL-7
I'm trying to build kernel for beaglebone-black and got this issue since cannot yum install uboot-tools :(
Is this still blocked? It would be really nice if we could have "mkimage" for CentOS 7. (Cross-compiling, host=x86_64, target=PowerPC.) Thanks!
If anyone else is blocked on this, it was pretty easy to rebuild the .src.rpm from EL6: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/uboot-tools/2011.03/1.el6/src/uboot-tools-2011.03-1.el6.src.rpm Looks like this was before `dtc` and friends got included, so it built without any crazy dependencies, and seemed to work fine (for packaging ppc kernels built on an x86_64 host). Thanks!
Sorry for the spam, but in case anyone else has trouble finding it, I used the basic instructions for rebuilding an rpm from .src.rpm at: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM Happy cross-compiling!
It looks like this was going to get rectified back in October of 2014...pending dtc also getting added to RHEL-7 or EPEL-7. Has anything actually happened with this? I'm working on building an RPM that will depend on uboot-tools. It would be nice to be able to say that all dependencies are available from public mirrors. Does anyone know of an alternate repo I can add where this might be available?
Seeing as there has not been any activity on this thread in a year, is there any timeline on building a package for EPEL7 distributions?
This issue maybe need a update. Luckily, someone has rebuilt the uboot-tools.rpm along with dependence dtc.rpm. We can find them in https://pkgs.org/download/uboot-tools. https://pkgs.org/download/dtc.
I was surprised to find this issue. How can RedHat hope to lure developers to use their RHEL 7 OS when its missing something like this? It took less than 5 minutes to build from a RHEL 6 SRPM, but this was a roadblock that was seriously unexpected and shouldn't have been an issue. Shame on you RedHat... its been 3 years almost.
This RPM is available in the CentOS 7 Extras repository. I slapped this together: [centos-extras] Name=CentOS-7 Extras baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/7/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7