Re: Devpdf on RHEL8

[Steve Ross]

 Hi Olle,
I'm not an expert on RHEL8 repositories, but I did look for the "groff-perl" 
package for RHEL8.  (That package is available in Fedora 34 as 
"groff-perl-1.22.4-7.fc34".)  However, the only two "groff" related packages 
that I see from the RHEL8 repository are "groff" and "groff-base".
The EPEL site (<https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/>) for EPEL8 does not 
have the "groff-perl" package.  A search on the "RPM finder" 
(<https://www.rpmfind.net>) page turns up "groff-perl-1.22.2-8.el7" package for 
RHEL8/CentOS7, but nothing for RHEL8/CentOS8.
I did, however, talk to an expert.  He was confused by the fact that the 
".spec" file for the RHEL8 "groff" source RPM package shows that the build 
process for "groff" also builds the "groff-perl" package, but that package 
isn't then part of the RHEL8 repository.
Perhaps you could follow the instructions here, 
<https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/fedora-package-in-epel/>, to request 
that the Fedora package of "groff-perl" be added to the EPEL repository.
-- Steve Ross


    On Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 05:45:36 PM CDT, Olle Lögdahl 
<osvel@acc.umu.se> wrote:  
 
 This may be the wrong place to ask. I'm trying to build using devpdf on
redhat enterprise linux 8. The package groff-perl, which provides
devpdf, doesn't seem to exist anymore for el8. I also tried building
from source, but the package texinfo (or rather, it's requirement
perl(Unicode::EastAsianWidth)) doesn't exist either.

Is there some rh-/el 8 user whom could guide me?

Thanks in advance,
Olle