On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Gergely Buday <gbuday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19 May 2014 04:50, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 01:30:24PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> > An idea is to build it in a directory, as much independent as it is
>>> > possible from the installed libraries on the centos installation. Is
>>> > there an automated build system for such an endeavour?
>>> Run Fedora as a VM?
>>
>> Or, run Docker with a Fedora container.
>
>> You might be interested in Software Collections. See
>> <https://www.softwarecollections.org/>. This is basically a system for
>> packaging RPMs that instal in /opt instead of into the distribution proper.
>
> Thanks, software collections seem to be the thing I imagined. No
> wonder that somebody has already done it.
>
You may also want to look at Open Build Service (from openSUSE)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Build_Service> and the portal
<http://openbuildservice.org/>
Purportedly, you can build packages for several distributions. YMMV -
no personal experience.
-- Arun Khan
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