amazonlinux
[Package Request] - hdf5-devel
What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2022? Please describe and include package name. hdf5-devel - development package for the HDF5 library, which is a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing large and complex data collections
Is this an update to existing package or new package request? new
Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? If it is available via external sources such as EPEL, please specify. It is avaialbe in Amazon Linux 2 via EPEL
Any additional information you'd like to include. (use-cases, etc)
It's been over 6 months and not a single update on this. libhdf5dev (hdf5-devel) is a major dependency for most python data science and machine learning packages. Currently building from source on amazonlinux 2023 which is definitely not ideal...
It is also a non-trivial CVE magnet. How stable is it ABI-wise in general ? Is it something that can realistically just be bumped to the latest version regularly or not ?
It's also been available on amazonlinux 2 for ages
I do not think so (this is on an AL2 machine):
repoquery -i hdf5-devel
Name : hdf5-devel
Version : 1.8.12
Release : 13.el7
Architecture: x86_64
Size : 16175378
Packager : Fedora Project
Group : Development/Libraries
URL : http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
Repository : epel
Summary : HDF5 development files
Source : hdf5-1.8.12-13.el7.src.rpm
Description :
HDF5 development headers and libraries.
Yeah, it's a package from EPEL, not one we have shipped as part of Amazon Linux.
Frankly, without EPEL Amazon Linux 2 would be nearly useless... I am sure many people do not want to migrate to AL 2023 without something similar to EPEL.
I see that the Fedora/EPEL builds are much older than what is current. The recommended version of hdf5 is 1.14.3. https://portal.hdfgroup.org/downloads/index.html
Fedora SRC RPM: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hdf5
Fedora hdf5-1.12.1
EPEL 9 hdf5-1.12.1
EPEL 8 hdf5-1.10.5
EPEL 7 hdf5-1.8.12
I downloaded and extracted the precompiled version for Centos 8 and was able to run them on al2023. https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.14/hdf5-1.14.3/bin/
https://repost.aws/articles/ARssMZ5BiQQrufNPpflEv3kQ/installing-python-package-tensorflow-on-amazon-linux-2023-for-graviton
a way to get it