[mythtv-users] qt5 dependancy issue

[Stephen Collier]

On 15/5/18 5:42 pm, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 12/05/18 05:55, Stephen Collier wrote:
>> On 11/05/2018 8:51 PM, Tim Draper wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>   ---- On Fri, 11 May 2018 11:06:26 +0100 John Pilkington 
>>> <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote ----
>>>   > On 11/05/18 09:44, Tim Draper wrote:
>>>   > > I'm having to rebuild one of my FE's, using centos7 with epel 
>>> and nux-dextop (wiki recommended iirc).
>>>   > > 'yum install mythtv-frontend' attempts to install some qt5 
>>> components but I'm failing on version mismatch.
>>>   > >
>>>   > > Error: Package: qt5-qtwebkit-5.6.2-1.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>>>   > >             Requires: qt5-qtdeclarative(x86-64) = 5.6.2
>>>   > >             Installed: qt5-qtdeclarative-5.9.2-1.el7.x86_64 
>>> (@base)
>>>   > >                 qt5-qtdeclarative(x86-64) = 5.9.2-1.el7
>>>   > > Error: Package: qt5-qtwebkit-5.6.2-1.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>>>   > >             Requires: qt5-qtbase(x86-64) = 5.6.2
>>>   > >             Installed: qt5-qtbase-5.9.2-3.el7.x86_64 (@base)
>>>   > >                 qt5-qtbase(x86-64) = 5.9.2-3.el7
>>>   > >
>>>   > > looks like it's wanting 5.6.2, but 5.9.2 is newer.
>>>   > >
>>>   > > what would be the correct way forward to resolve this, 
>>> --skip-broken, temporarily disable one of the repos (which one; base 
>>> or epel?) and/or exclude qt5 from base repos and rely soly on epel?
>>>   > >
>>>   > The same question was asked here yesterday by Ashu and an answer 
>>> was
>>>   > given.  I have 5.6.2-1 installed, apparently from the SL7rolling 
>>> repo
>>>   > some time ago, and yumex has not offered to change it. I don't have
>>>   > SL7rolling enabled now and I'm not seeing 5.9...
>>>   >
>>>   > There was a rather inconclusive BZ about it last year.
>>>   >
>>>   > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1478131
>>>   >
>
>>>   >
>>> thanks, i'm taking this over to Ash's thread. (cant believe i missed 
>>> it!)
>>>
>
>> qt5-qtwebkit-5.9.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>   is in epel test I have been using it to compile my el7 rpms 
>> recently. I've also added it to my rpms for convenience.
>>
>> Stephen
>
> I'm now seeing it in epel.
>
> I think the qt5.6 vs qt5.9 issue is mainly about timing.  There is a 
> delay between the release of rhel7.x and the appearance of the CentOS 
> or SL rebuilds, and epel is usually kept in sync with rhel.  Some SL7 
> users, including me, weren't seeing the 7.5 packages anyway.
>
> I have just rebuilt my 30-pre-579 mythtv-master packages (from before 
> the ffmpeg refactor) for the new SL7x environment, using mock in F26, 
> and was able to install them under SL7.4.  They pulled in qt5.9 and 
> several other packages; after that 'yum update' installed or updated 
> 532 more packages from SL7x and so far all seems good...
>
> John P
>
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Glad its all working- the underlying issue was that gt4-gtwebkit-5.9 
does not compile with a standard el7 gcc. It needed a more recent 
complier hence why epel were more cautious at releasing it. At least 
thats my understanding.