On 07/03/2014 01:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Have you tried the simple-minded approach of downloading the fedora
>>> src rpm and doing an 'rpmbuild --rebuild' of it? Sometimes all it
>>> take to make that work is installing whatever dependencies are
>>> missing, sometimes that turns out to be difficult or impossible,
>>> depending on required versions and conflicts. You might have a
>>> better chance of making this work after Centos 7 is out, though.
>>>
>> For various reasons I lean toward installing software over doing my own
>> builds. No one else is going to do the write ups I need for
>> management.
> Sure, but the rpm package you get from rebuilding an existing fedora
> source rpm is going to be essentially the same thing you'd get if the
> maintainer built it for centos6/EPEL. That is, all of the things
> that would make it 'your' build have already been done by someone else
> and coded in the spec file. If it works...
>
>> I have been asked to setup a testbed to show how this works
>> now, and I have not seen that Miredo is any more available for Centos
>> 7. Also the datacenter where my testbed would be moved to will be on
>> Centos 6 for some time.
>>
>> But you might have more knowledge Miredo for Centos 7 than I do...
> Not specifically about those, but just in terms of compatibility
> between a fedora src rpm and the Centos environment. A lot of things
> have changed in libraries and rpm syntax between centos 6 and current
> fedora so you are fairly likely to have some problems rebuilding an
> unmodified src rpm. On the other hand you should still be able to
> find fedora 19 src rpms and that environment should be very similar to
> Centos 7. So the rpmbuild would be much more likely to 'just work' -
> with the result also being very likely to be compatible with what
> would land in EPEL if the maintainer decides to add it.
>
Ah, so taking the src from remlab.net might not successfully build.
Putting up a Centos 7 beta (I could redo rigel to C7) and getting the
F19 source, I should be more successful. So where is miredo for F19?
Not at:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/19/Fedora/source/SRPMS/m/
I know it is available for Fedora 20 as finished rpms.
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