Questions tagged [software-collections]

For questions using or packaging software collections (SCLs).

Software Collections (or SCL) is a packaging technology to install multiple versions of software on the same system.

There are many different software collections available for download, primarily for Enterprise Linux and Fedora systems.

This tag is for issues relating to commonly available software collections, the base tooling (e.g. scl-utils), and development of new software collections.

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SCL Centos nodejs10 - still "secure/up-to-date"

I need to install nodejs10 on a CentOS 7 box - so I tried using SCL to achieve this goal: #yum install centos-release-scl-rh #yum install rh-nodejs10 #scl enable rh-nodejs10 bash #node -v v10.10.0 So this version is not the most recent, but if all…
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software collections building a perl526 program

I'm looking to see if there is a best practice for building a perl526 program using scl perl526. I'll be using git clone to pull the source code in, and then building it with scl rh-perl526 enable bash Would I git clone into…
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how to build scl, example are old and rpmlint contradict the documentation?

I read the official documentation, some examples on github and on atomicorp . But I am still confused! Should have to make 2 specs? One to build the tools and another one for a metapackage? If yes why atomicscorp's spec file seem to be a mix of spec…
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Centos 6: Software Collections don't install correctly

On centos 6 (using Docker's centos:6), I've installed centos-release-scl and scl-utils-build via yum, but trying to run scl gives bash: scl: command not found find / -name scl returns nothing, so I don't think it's a path issue. Any help would be…
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Are the SCL repos of PHP kept up to date?

I noticed that the SCL version of PHP is still at 7.1.8 while the latest PHP 7.1 version is 7.1.15. This is the collection's site: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-php71/ And here are the packages:…
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How can I replace a given -Ldir1 by -Ldir2, in a linking command line generated by cmake

I have a CMakeLists.txt. I use it for generating a makefile with ccmake. Then upon make, my sources are compiled ok. At link time, the command line produced is essentially /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/bin/c++ myprog.cc.o -o myprog -Ldir3…
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How can I install SCL on Oracle Linux 6?

I would like to use the SCLs, but cannot find a way to install the release file. Is it possible to install SCL on Oracle Linux 6 and, if so, how?
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Sourcing Software Collections (SCL ) on Jenkins

My intention is to source devtoolset-4 on Jenkins and for all users. So, if I login to the VM which hosts Jenkins and do source /opt/rh/devtoolset-4/enable from the command line, all works fine. So, my idea was to include this sentence in…
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RHEL 6 SCL script not sourcing for normal user

I'm using devtoolset-2 on a rhel 6.9 installation so I can use the gcc 4.8 version that devtoolset-2 offers. On a previous rhel 6.2 installation (on a VM) I was able to enable devtoolset-2's gcc by adding a script in /etc/profile.d/ to source…
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Eclipse CDT installed via devtoolset-4 on CentOS 7 is using the wrong version of gcc/g++

I installed the devtoolset-4 software collection on a CentOS 7 machine that I'm using for development. This software collection includes the compiler I want to use, g++ 5.2.1, as well as Eclipse CDT 4.5 (Mars). When I create a new c++ project in…
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Package Verification Keys for CentOS SCL RPMs

This is probably a silly question, but... Our security folks prefer that we enable GPG-checking for all RPMs to be installed. We've recently started using packages from the CentOS.Org packaging of Software Collections. When I try to install these,…
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Upgrading Python package in Redhat Software Collections (RHSCL)

I'm using SCL to manage different versions of Python on a machine, but I'm having trouble updating and installing packages at the SCL level. I am trying to upgrade pip. First I tried scl enable python27 'pip install -U pip' but I do not have…
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How to control ruby-devel presence in a Software Collections environment

I'm currently trying to build a Ruby app on a Centos 6.6 machine. There are different Ruby stacks installed through Software Collections. Please not that I do not have root on the machine, and my privileges are limited, particularly, they do not…
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Issues creating a Dependent Software Collection with a Differing Provider

OK, so in the interests of full disclosure, building RPMs, including Software Collections isn't really my day job, so apologies if I'm missing an obvious trick. My goal is to create a Software Collection that packages a bunch of python modules (our…
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Is there any way to add git specific version into Linux "capabilities" in the azure devops agent pool

We have a GIT installed using YUM in our linux RHEL 7.9. Right now, our azure devops linux build agents are able to recognize this GIT 2.24.2 and everything working fine. But moving forward we like to use the GIT 2.29 which we installed recently…
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