[MDEV-31738] Unable to install MariaDB Community version 10.9+ on RHEL based OS due to unresolved dependency pv Created: 2023-07-18  Updated: 2023-11-28

Status: Stalled
Project: MariaDB Server
Component/s: Packaging, wsrep
Affects Version/s: 11.0.2, 10.9.7, 10.10.5, 10.11.4
Fix Version/s: 10.11

Type: Bug Priority: Major
Reporter: Kyle Hutchinson Assignee: Julius Goryavsky
Resolution: Unresolved Votes: 3
Labels: None
Environment:

Tested on CentOS 7

Issue Links:
Problem/Incident
is caused by MDEV-26971 JSON file interface to wsrep node sta... Closed

 Description   

When attempting to install MariaDB-server-10.9.7-1.el7.centos.x86_64 via YUM on CentOS 7 I get the following error:

Error: Package: MariaDB-server-10.9.7-1.el7.centos.x86_64 (mariadb-main)
 
           Requires: pv

I found the pv website and came across this message:

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives has been dropped as of July 2023. Neither pre-packaged binary RPMs nor integrated RPM spec files will be provided.

For more information on the issues with Red Hat, please refer to this excellent article on the Software Freedom Conservancy blog: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model

 Comments   
Comment by Elena Stepanova [ 2023-07-18 ]

sysprg,

The installation issue should only affect CentOS 7 (and maybe old SLES), as for newer versions the dependency works as a recommendation, not as a requirement; but still, if the support is dropped and the package isn't provided, it doesn't make much sense to even recommend it, and certainly not require it.

It is unclear however whether they are going to support RockyLinux and Alma. And also, if they are dropping support quoting RHEL licensing issues and discontinuation of CentOS, why did the package disappear from CentOS repositories?
Maybe it requires some more investigation.
In Buildbot it works so far, the package gets installed from epel.

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