On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 9:43:53 AM CEST Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 6/4/19 9:56 AM, Daniel Mach wrote: > > > Dne 31. 05. 19 v 2:15 Pavel Raiskup napsal(a): > > > >> On Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:38:25 AM CEST Miroslav Suchý wrote: > >> > >>> Dne 29. 05. 19 v 23:52 Josh Boyer napsal(a): > >>> > >>>> If we did this, wouldn't it make it very difficult to use tools like > >>>> mock on RHEL / CentOS 7 to build for Fedora 3x? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Speaking of Mock: > >>> Either the RPM on host need to understand the new format/compression > >>> **or** > >>> the packages in @buildsys group (including transitional deps) have to > >>> be in > >>> old format - then you can build for Fedora 3x using bootstrap feature. > >> > >> > >> > >> I need to underline this, it would be really really really bad if we > >> were > >> not able to --installroot fedora chroots at least on RHEL 8. How likely > >> is a backport of zstd support into RPM in EL7+? > > > > RHEL 8 should be quite easy - get zstd package into RHEL and recompile > > rpm with zstd support. > > > > RHEL 7 is a different story. The patch doesn't apply directly and a > > backport would be needed. > > > > Panu, > > how difficult it would be to backport the zstd support to RHEL 7 RPM? > > > Technically, backporting rpmio backends is almost trivial, even to much > older rpm versions. > > Getting new features into older RHEL is a much bigger problem. > > - Panu - Has there been any progress on this? What is the recommended way to build Fedora 31+ RPMs on a RHEL-7 host? Kamil _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
