Cannot install boost-static...

[Ian Malone]

On 5 August 2013 21:58, Georgios Petasis <petasisg at yahoo.gr> wrote:
> Στις 5/8/2013 19:57, ο/η Richard Vickery έγραψε:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Georgios Petasis <petasisg at yahoo.gr>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install boost-static, but I am getting an error:
>>>
>>>> yum install boost-static.i686
>>>
>>> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, refresh-packagekit
>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>> --> Running transaction check
>>> ---> Package boost-static.i686 0:1.53.0-6.fc19 will be installed
>>> --> Processing Dependency: boost-devel = 1.53.0-6.fc19 for package:
>>> boost-static-1.53.0-6.fc19.i686
>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>> Error: Package: boost-static-1.53.0-6.fc19.i686 (fedora)
>>>             Requires: boost-devel = 1.53.0-6.fc19
>>>             Installed: boost-devel-1.53.0-8.fc19.i686 (installed)
>>>                 boost-devel = 1.53.0-8.fc19
>>>             Available: boost-devel-1.53.0-6.fc19.i686 (fedora)
>>>                 boost-devel = 1.53.0-6.fc19
>>>   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>>   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>>
>>> How can I fix this?
>>>
>>> George
>>
>>
>> Try: yum install boost-static - without .i686, as it's unnecessary
>
>
> Hm, difficult to do, I need the i686 package on my x86_64 machine for
> cross-compilation.
> The x86_64 variant works (and is installed in my system). The i686 variant
> cannot been installed.
> I think boost-static.i686 1.53.0-8.fc19 is missing from the repositories.
>

Could be the case, I can't check an F19 machine at the moment, what does
yum search boost-static --show-duplicates
report?

The output for that on this F18 system is unexpected:
boost-static-1.50.0-4.fc18.i686 : The Boost C++ static development libraries
boost-static-1.50.0-4.fc18.x86_64 : The Boost C++ static development libraries
boost-static-1.50.0-6.fc18.x86_64 : The Boost C++ static development libraries

vs:
boost-devel-1.50.0-4.fc18.i686 : The Boost C++ headers and shared development
                               : libraries
boost-devel-1.50.0-4.fc18.x86_64 : The Boost C++ headers and shared development
                                 : libraries
boost-devel-1.50.0-6.fc18.i686 : The Boost C++ headers and shared development
                               : libraries
boost-devel-1.50.0-6.fc18.x86_64 : The Boost C++ headers and shared development
                                 : libraries

So I'd likely be seeing the same problem as you using boost, as the
later 686 build is missing.
But it definitely exists, e.g.
http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/linux/updates/18/i386/boost-build-1.50.0-6.fc18.noarch.rpm
or for your case
http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/linux/updates/19/i386/boost-1.53.0-8.fc19.i686.rpm
so it's some kind of repository metadata issue, not sure where to file
a bug for that. Might be worth a post to the devel list.

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imalone
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