Re: Miredo server for Centos 6

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On 07/03/2014 02:16 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 12:20 -0500, 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...
> First a note to Robert: miredo-server is a separate rpm package, but it
> is built from the same source rpm as the other miredo packages.
>
> I donloaded the src rpm for Fedora 20. That package depends on having
> systemd (so it would most likely work on RHEL7).
> If I remove the systemd references (the requires/ build requires and
> the .service files) it builds without any more issues. If you can create
> your own init files you should be all set.
>
> The changelog says:
> Tue Apr 24 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher@xxxxxxxxx> - 1.1.7-8 - Migrate to
> systemd, BZ 789782.
> so if you take a Fedora 1.1.7-7 or earlier src rpm, you could probably
> easily take the spec file and use the 1.2.6 tar file to build a working
> setup
>
>
thanks!  More to puzzle through.


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