Re: Availability of Pike SRPMs for EL8 and newer builds

[Maksim AbuAjamieh]

Hi Bill,Thanks so much for the update and for taking the time to clean things up and make them accessible. I’ll look forward to the SRPMs whenever you’re ready to share them, but it is perfectly fine if you would prefer to just share what you already have. I really appreciate the effort you are putting into this.Best regards,MaksimOn Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM  wrote:Hi-

That would be my fault... I've always been so focused on the rpms but 
the srpm is an artifact I seem to forget to upload the SRPM.

I have a spec file that's never been checked into version control, as 
well as some scripts that I've used to produce the RPMs available for 
download... Part of the reason it's always languished on my build system 
is that the spec file needs changing for various el releases, and 
there's a separate dependency installation step required to get the 
builds to work. I didn't want a proliferation of files in the pike 
packaging directory. I will try to clean those up a bit and put them 
somewhere publicly accessible.

Note: pike doesn't seem to build properly on el10, I suspect due to the 
version of gcc in use. The fix is a one-liner, but a patch is necessary 
until a new release is made.

Stand by for an update on this, probably in a day or two.

Best,

Bill


On 2025-11-18 12:25, Maksim AbuAjamieh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While looking through the EL8 packages at:
> 
> https://pike.lysator.liu.se/download/pub/pike/all/8.0.1738/el8/
> 
> I noticed that the repository provides the binary RPMs but not the
> corresponding source RPMs. Is there a particular reason the SRPMs
> aren’t published for this build?
> 
> If the SRPMs are available elsewhere, I’d appreciate a pointer.
> I’m also interested in building more recent Pike versions for newer
> RHEL derivatives and potentially Fedora, so if there are newer RPMs
> (with matching source packages) available, please let me know where
> they can be found.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any guidance.

Re: Availability of Pike SRPMs for EL8 and newer builds

[william]

Hi-

That would be my fault... I've always been so focused on the rpms but 
the srpm is an artifact I seem to forget to upload the SRPM.


I have a spec file that's never been checked into version control, as 
well as some scripts that I've used to produce the RPMs available for 
download... Part of the reason it's always languished on my build system 
is that the spec file needs changing for various el releases, and 
there's a separate dependency installation step required to get the 
builds to work. I didn't want a proliferation of files in the pike 
packaging directory. I will try to clean those up a bit and put them 
somewhere publicly accessible.


Note: pike doesn't seem to build properly on el10, I suspect due to the 
version of gcc in use. The fix is a one-liner, but a patch is necessary 
until a new release is made.


Stand by for an update on this, probably in a day or two.

Best,

Bill


On 2025-11-18 12:25, Maksim AbuAjamieh wrote:

Hello,

While looking through the EL8 packages at:

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/download/pub/pike/all/8.0.1738/el8/

I noticed that the repository provides the binary RPMs but not the
corresponding source RPMs. Is there a particular reason the SRPMs
aren’t published for this build?

If the SRPMs are available elsewhere, I’d appreciate a pointer.
I’m also interested in building more recent Pike versions for newer
RHEL derivatives and potentially Fedora, so if there are newer RPMs
(with matching source packages) available, please let me know where
they can be found.

Thanks in advance for any guidance.