[Bug 1205819] New: RHEL 6.6 can't yum install ghc. No package libffi-devel available.

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205819

Bug ID: 1205819
           Summary: RHEL 6.6 can't yum install ghc. No package
                    libffi-devel available.
           Product: Fedora EPEL
           Version: el6
         Component: ghc
          Severity: medium
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]

Description of problem:
I type "yum install ghc" and I get the following error:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: ghc-base-devel-4.3.1.0-46.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libffi-devel

I type yum install libffi-devel, and I get the answer:

No package libffi-devel available.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
7.0.4

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  yum install ghc
2.  
3.

Actual results:   Dependencies not found.  Package would not install

Expected results:  I expected the packages to find the dependencies and
install.

Additional info:

I searched manually through your repositories and indeed verified that
libffi-devel is not there.

[Bug 1205819] RHEL 6.6 can't yum install ghc. No package libffi-devel available.

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205819

Anssi Johansson  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Anssi Johansson  ---
Have you read the "NOTE for RHN users" on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F ?

[Bug 1205819] RHEL 6.6 can't yum install ghc. No package libffi-devel available.

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205819

--- Comment #2 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to Anssi Johansson from comment #1)
> Have you read the "NOTE for RHN users" on
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F ?

You are correct.  Once I ran 
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-workstation-optional-rpms

The package installed just fine.  Thanks for your help.

[Bug 1205819] RHEL 6.6 can't yum install ghc. No package libffi-devel available.

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205819

[e-mail] changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2015-04-06 17:28:50