Description of problem: I'm unable to install the awscli package from EPEL 7-9 on a Red Hat EL 7.3 server in AWS. yum says the package requires python-docutils >= 0.10, but python-docutils is not in any available repository. The repository list includes: epel/x86_64, rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64, rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64, and rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.11.28-2.el7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 2. yum install awscli Actual results: Error: Package: python2-botocore-1.5.3-1.el7.noarch (epel-testing) Requires: python-docutils >= 0.10 Error: Package: awscli-1.11.40-1.el7.noarch (epel-testing) Requires: python-docutils >= 0.10 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest Expected results: Dependencies Resolved Additional info: After reading bug 1380536 I also tried adding the option "--enablerepo=epel-testing", but python-docutils was not in that repository either.
Forgot to include a step, implied in the description, but it may be important. 0. Launch an instance of “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (HVM)” (ami-6f68cf0f) in Amazon EC2.
I just happened to try this again on another instance that was using an older AMI, RHEL-7.2_HVM_GA-20151112-x86_64-1-Hourly2-GP2 (ami-775e4f16), and it found the dependency in the rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional repository. Checking the repo configurations I found that this repository is enabled on the RH 7.2 instance, but _disabled_ on the RH 7.3 instance. So it appears this is not actually a broken dependency, but a repository misconfiguration. Not sure whether that can be called a fault on the RHEL side or on EPEL, but I can work around it by adding "yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional" to the launch script.