In article <1208548520.4908.58.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Philip R. Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 17:05 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> > Hi, I want to take a SRPM that is available for various versions of Fedora
> > and rebuild it on a CentOS 4 system.
> >
> > Which release of Fedora is the closest to CentOS 4? In other words, which
> > would be the best FC to take the SRPM for?
>
> Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
>
> Originally, Red Hat based Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Red Hat Linux, but
> using a much more conservative release cycle. Later versions leveraged
> technologies from Fedora which is a community distribution and project
> that Red Hat sponsors. Roughly every third version of Red Hat Linux
> (RHL) or Fedora forms the basis for a version of Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux, thus:
>
> * Red Hat Linux 6.2 -> Red Hat Linux 6.2E
> * Red Hat Linux 7.2 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
> * Red Hat Linux 9 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
> * Fedora Core 3 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
> * Fedora Core 6 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
> * Fedora 9 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (projected)
>
> IIRC the RHEL (and thus CentOS) branches from Fedora have been from late
> test versions rather than the final releases. I have had pretty good
> luck building packages from a Fedora release or 2 later than the branch
> version on CentOS. My $0.02 is to try the latest SRPM for a particular
> package that will build successfully, rather than going all the way back
> to FC3 for EL4-based systems. You will often need to build dependencies
> from Fedora as well. Probably goes without saying, but check the 3rd
> party repos first before embarking on custom builds.
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
Thanks, that's useful info. I had found the kbs-CentOS-Extras repository,
which has a lot of useful stuff, but didn't have libconfuse. I installed
the SRPM of libconfuse for FC6, and it built on CentOS4 without any problems
(once I had installed check and check-devel from kbs).
Cheers
Tony
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