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Bug 2117934 - Please include libappindicator-devel in codeready-builder repo
Summary: Please include libappindicator-devel in codeready-builder repo
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Deadline: 2022-08-29
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libappindicator
Version: CentOS Stream
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Eike Rathke
QA Contact: Tomas Pelka
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-08-12 18:23 UTC by Markus Muckhoff
Modified: 2022-08-29 12:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-08-29 11:57:42 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-131039 0 None None None 2022-08-12 18:28:19 UTC

Description Markus Muckhoff 2022-08-12 18:23:23 UTC 
Please include libappindicator-devel in codeready-builder repo
Comment 1 Markus Muckhoff 2022-08-12 18:27:19 UTC 
libappindicator-devel is needed as dependency for building xpad in epel8 (ticket #2041567)

This ticket has been filed due to a comment from Davide Cavalca in ticket #2117860
Comment 9 Eike Rathke 2022-08-24 13:28:47 UTC 
@markus.muckhoff
This may be a misunderstanding. RHEL-8 ships only libappindicator-gtk3-12.10.0-19, no libappindicator-12.10.0-19.
Only RHEL-9 introduced an additional libappindicator-12.10.0-29 with accompanying libappindicator-devel-12.10.0-29.
May it be you just need libappindicator-gtk3-devel-12.10.0-19 that is already in CRB?
For example libappindicator-gtk3-devel-12.10.0-19.el8.x86_64.rpm
Comment 11 Tomas Popela 2022-08-29 11:57:42 UTC 
(In reply to Eike Rathke from comment #9)
> @markus.muckhoff
> This may be a misunderstanding. RHEL-8 ships only
> libappindicator-gtk3-12.10.0-19, no libappindicator-12.10.0-19.
> Only RHEL-9 introduced an additional libappindicator-12.10.0-29 with
> accompanying libappindicator-devel-12.10.0-29.
> May it be you just need libappindicator-gtk3-devel-12.10.0-19 that is
> already in CRB?
> For example libappindicator-gtk3-devel-12.10.0-19.el8.x86_64.rpm

I know what's going on here and I'm here the one to "blame". First let me mention that:

libappindicator = source package
libappindicator = package built from libappindicator source package providing gtk2 support
libappindicator-python2-appindicator = package built from libappindicator source package providing gtk2 and python2 support
libappindicator-gtk3 = package built from libappindicator source package providing gtk3 support (doesn't depend on libappindicator package)
libappindicator-sharp = package built from libappindicator source package providing Mono support

When RHEL 8 was being developed we were not interested in having libappindicator (and any of its dependencies) in RHEL 8 as we had no use for them in the OS, but Google Chrome required the libappindicator3.so.1 (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=799144):

$ rpm -qpR google-chrome-stable-66.0.3359.181-1.x86_64.rpm | grep app
libappindicator3.so.1()(64bit)

that was provided by the libappindicator-gtk3 package of the libappindicator source package. As we had to disable the python2 support and we were not interested in gtk2 bits and also no Mono stack in RHEL, we've decided to import that libappindicator source package into RHEL 8 and just build and ship libappindicator-gtk3(-devel) from it (in retrospective we should rather introduce it as a libappindicator-gtk3 source package and just don't build it in EPEL) and remove everything else, see https://git.centos.org/rpms/libappindicator/blob/c8/f/SPECS/libappindicator.spec - I made a small mistake that I left the libappindicator-devel subpackage definition there, but as it had no %files section it didn't produce any packages. So my suggestion for getting the libappindicator with gtk2 support into EPEL 8 is to package it there (i.e. using the libappindicator-gtk2 source package name) and build the gtk2 bits from it - there is nothing that we can do about it from RHEL's side.
Comment 12 Markus Muckhoff 2022-08-29 12:17:26 UTC 
Thank you for clarifying things and sorry for the late reply.

I am very busy at the moment and have been trying to understand what this package is all about before responding to the questions in this thread.

I will copy your reply to the appropriate ticket #2117860
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