Re: Libevent conflict on EL-6?

> On Apr 9, 2016, at 7:42 AM, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On 04/08/16 22:06, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>>> libevent-1.4.so.2()(64bit)
>>> Updated By: libevent-2.0.22-1.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg95)
>>> Not found
>
>> I have found that the only way to sort this out is to install the new
>> libevent using the rpm program directly. It's not a problem for rpm to
>> have multiple versions of a package, but yum can't handle it.
>>
>> Other solutions welcome.
>
> Well, is there not a compat-libevent14 package (which, I presume, would
> provide 1.4-compatible interfaces on top of 2.0) that Devrim has previously
> mentioned simply needing to include in the repo? I don't know, myself, I'm
> only grasping for clues in old messages.
>
> compat-libevent /is/ shown on the "full package list":
> http://yum.postgresql.org/news-packagelist.php
>
> However, 'yum list available' does not show it, on my rhel6 box subscribed
> to the repo.
>
> I got the impression from Devrim's 2014 comment that it was a known
> issue with a straightforward solution, just adding compat-libevent
> to the repo. Was that later found to be unworkable?

I see the spec file here in the git repo:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgrpms.git;a=blob_plain;f=rpm/redhat/9.5/compat-libevent/EL-6/compat-libevent14.spec;hb=HEAD

but it looks like we’re not building it for some reason, but I’m not sure why.