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Description of problem: I was trying to make a scratch build in the dist-6E-epel build target that requires fftw-devel. It fails with: DEBUG util.py:255: No Package Found for fftw-devel There is no fftw package in ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/6/i386/os/Packages/ But the fftw package seems not to have been branched for EPEL6 anyway. Is there a reason for this? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): none (which is the problem) How reproducible: Always.
OK I can now see what happened. There was a fftw package in the RHEL6 beta2 release - in the optional repo. So at the time EPEL6 was branched, there was no need to branch fftw. $ ( RHELBASE="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6" ; repoquery --disablerepo=* --repofrompath=rhel6-optional,$RHELBASE/optional/x86_64/os --repofrompath=rhel6,$RHELBASE/x86_64/os --enablerepo=rhel6 --enablerepo=rhel6-optional fftw* ) fftw-0:3.2.1-3.1.el6.i686 fftw-0:3.2.1-3.1.el6.x86_64 fftw-devel-0:3.2.1-3.1.el6.i686 fftw-devel-0:3.2.1-3.1.el6.x86_64 fftw-static-0:3.2.1-3.1.el6.x86_64 But now we are using the 5.90 pre-release, which does not have a fftw package anymore. $ ( RHELBASE="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/5.90Server" ; repoquery --disablerepo=* --repofrompath=rhel-optional,$RHELBASE/optional/x86_64/os --repofrompath=rhel,$RHELBASE/x86_64/os --enablerepo=rhel --enablerepo=rhel-optional fftw* ) (* no output *)
This issue is also discussed at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/3916
In the end RHEL 6 Final was released with an fftw package, so no need for an EPEL package after all - closing.