ubi9/perl-532 missing expat-devel package

[nathanweeks]

Container platform

Podman/Docker

Version

registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/perl-532:9.5-1731645377

OS version of the container image

RHEL 9

Bugzilla, Jira

No response

Description

The ubi9/perl-532 does not have the expat-devel package installed; in particular, this causes the installation of XML::Parser to fail (see "Reproducer" section)

% podman run -it --rm registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/perl-532 dnf list --installed 'expat*'
Not root, Subscription Management repositories not updated
Installed Packages
expat.x86_64                          2.5.0-3.el9_5.1                           @System

For comparison, ubi8/perl-532 does the expat-devel package installed:

% podman run -it --rm registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/perl-532:1-169.1731464736 dnf list --installed 'expat*'
Not root, Subscription Management repositories not updated
Installed Packages
expat.x86_64                2.2.5-16.el8_10           @System                          
expat-devel.x86_64          2.2.5-16.el8_10           @rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms__8

Reproducer

$ podman run -it --rm registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/perl-532: cpanm install -nL local XML::Parser
--> Working on install
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/install-0.01.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring install-0.01 ... OK
Building install-0.01 ... OK
Successfully installed install-0.01
--> Working on XML::Parser
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TO/TODDR/XML-Parser-2.47.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring XML-Parser-2.47 ... N/A
! Configure failed for XML-Parser-2.47. See /opt/app-root/src/.cpanm/work/1732624072.1/build.log for details.
1 distribution installed

The log file includes the error:

Expat must be installed prior to building XML::Parser and I can't find
it in the standard library directories. Install 'expat-devel' (or
'libexpat1-dev') package with your OS package manager. See 'README'.

Using ubi8/perl-532, the installation succeeds:

$ podman run -it --rm registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/perl-532:1-169.1731464736 cpanm install -nL local XML::Parser
...
Building XML-Parser-2.47 ... OK
Successfully installed XML-Parser-2.47
20 distributions installed

[michal-josef-spacek]

@nathanweeks You could simply install expat-devel, sure?

[nathanweeks]

Yes, though I was hoping to use this image as-is without having to build a custom image from Dockerfile/Containerfile & maintain it in another container registry. Also, for Perl apps that depend on XML::Parser, not having expat-devel in the ubi9 flavors complicates any ubi8 -> ubi9 upgrade path for S2I application use cases (e.g., on OpenShift).