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I'm trying to compile Awesome on CentOS 6.5 using rpmbuild. I found SRPMs for Fedora Core and am trying to rebuild them on my CentOS install but am running into dependency issues.

Basically, while I've installed newer versions of packages, rpmbuild doesn't seem to detect them. Here is an example:

$ rpmbuild --rebuild xcb-util-image-0.3.9-2.fc19.src.rpm Installing xcb-util-image-0.3.9-2.fc19.src.rpm warning: InstallSourcePackage at: psm.c:244: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID fb4b18e6: NOKEY warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root error: Failed build dependencies: pkgconfig(xcb-util) >= 0.3.8 is needed by xcb-util-image-0.3.9-2.el6.x86_64

But as you can see here, I clearly have xcb-util > 0.3.8 installed:

$ sudo yum list installed | grep xcb-util xcb-util.x86_64 0.3.6-1.el6 @UIedited_0/6.5 xcb-util.x86_64 0.3.9-2.el6 installed

I tried removing the older version of xcb-util but there are too many packages that depend on that.

Similar issue with building awesome when it comes to cmake:

$ rpmbuild --rebuild awesome-3.5.1-2.fc18.src.rpm Installing awesome-3.5.1-2.fc18.src.rpm warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root error: Failed build dependencies: cmake >= 2.8.0 is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 lua-ldoc is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 pkgconfig(libev) is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 pkgconfig(xcb-util) >= 0.3.8 is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 pkgconfig(xcb-keysyms) >= 0.3.4 is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 pkgconfig(xcb-icccm) >= 0.3.8 is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 pkgconfig(xcb-image) >= 0.3.0 is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 pkgconfig(cairo-xcb) is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 pkgconfig(libstartup-notification-1.0) >= 0.10 is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 pkgconfig(libxdg-basedir) >= 1.0.0 is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 lua-lgi is needed by awesome-3.5.1-2.el6.x86_64 $ which cmake /usr/bin/cmake $ cmake --version cmake version 2.8.11.2 $ sudo yum list installed | grep cmake cmake28.x86_64 2.8.11.2-1.el6 @dell-epel

So any yum/rpm gurus out there who can point me in the right direction? I'd rather not have to build everything from source, so I was hoping to get rpmbuild working with the SRPMs.

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Seems that your systems has multiple versions of some packages installed. If you have the "yum-utils" package installed, try the following command to remove the older versions of those packages and then see whether the rpmbuild works:

sudo /usr/bin/package-cleanup --cleandupes
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  • So if I run that command, yum wants to remove about 75 additional packages such as gdm, Thunar, gnome-desktop, etc. which depend on it. I'd like to have them just use the newer version but I'm not sure if that is possible. Commented May 8, 2014 at 15:30
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In case anyone else finds this, I was not able to get this working and didn't want to go down the path of compiling all the dependencies from source, so I ended up abandoning this endeavor in favor of getting my build working on Fedora 20 and installing Awesome from official repos.

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