RPM building for CentOS 8 and Stream

[k_mikhail]

Hello!

Need some help/assistance on RPM-package building for CentOS 8/Stream.

Currently I have RPM of python-pcapy-ng module, built via OBS service: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... n-pcapy-ng

Deal is that CentOS 7 is OK to build for, instead of Centos 8/Stream. Diagnosis: unresolvable: nothing provides python.

As far as I remember python means python 2, but there's no python in spec file, python3 only: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view ... py-ng.spec

Would be pretty thankful, if someone can give a hint what is wrong and how to workaround this problem.

Thanks!

[TrevorH]

I can't tell you how to fix this but I suspect I know what the problem is. RHEL 8 has several copies of python available and the one that used to be the 'system' python no longer exists. I would find a similar package that comes from say EPEL and look at how their spec file does this for clues.

You should probably also look at moving away from building for CentOS 8 entirely as it no longer exists - it went EOL nearly 6 months ago at the end of 2021 and, for CentOS 8, there is only Stream now. If you want to build for a clone of RHEL 8 then you should probably build for either Rocky or Alma Linux, both of which are clones of RHEL 8 in the same way that CentOS 8 once was.

[k_mikhail]

Hello!

Unfortunately, OBS has CentOS 7/8/Stream only for packaging. So, having deal with what is on.

"I would find a similar package that comes from say EPEL and look at how their spec file does this for clues." <-- thanks!