Having trouble with RPMs for version 2.6

[Peter Schober]

* Jesse Crossen <jesse.crossen at gmail.com> [2019-01-28 22:26]:
> I'm trying to install Shibboleth version 2.6 on Amazon Linux using
> the RHEL 6 packages from the repo here

Why? The SP 2.x software is EOL'd and fully unsupported.
Also the documentation already states

  "Use the Correct RPM or not at all
    Under no circumstances should you attempt to install a set of RPM
  packages built for/with a different OS or version from your own."

> I understand from reading previous posts that 2.6 is at EOL

Yes. But you shouldn't even have to dig into the list archives to find
out about that. The documentation isn't too subtle on this either:
A red box with the text
"The Shibboleth 2.x software has reached its End of Life and is no
longer supported."
is included at the top of every single page of the v2 documentation.

> and Amazon Linux isn't a supported platform

The project does not provide binary packages but building from SRPMS
is supported (much the same way as source builds, I suppose) and
should work just fine since 2.5.4-ish, IIRC.

> I at least have to build shibboleth itself from the SRPM because I
> need the module to be built for Apache 2.4. I have a build script
> that does this and has been working for some time, but it seems like
> some update to one of the provided packages made it stop working.

You'll need to perform all steps the fine documentation says you have
to perform.

The SP v3 documentation even includes specific instructions for Amazon
Linux: https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SP3/SRPMBuild

> Here's what I'm seeing:

* Jesse Crossen <jesse.crossen at gmail.com> [2019-01-28 22:28]:
> The console snippet showed up in the preview but not my email, so reposting
> it here:

In both cases there's nothing there, but it likely doesn't matter:
Forget about SP v2. Follow the SP3 docs for Amazon to the letter. Success.

-peter