On Mon, 2 Jan 2012, Elias Abacioglu wrote:
So the question is, is there a way to build packages with "legacy" support?
Like some way to force the rpm to use other payload and filedigest methods
that have wider support.
Cause it feels kind of backwards to install centos 4 to build rpm packages
that should work on old and new versions of rpm.
I dunno about 'feels backward' -- later versions of RHEL, and
thus CentOS have moved to new forms of compression, etc, whose
'emergence as desired' were not knowable to earlier versions
of RPM
The steps of 'ripping out xz compression' and later RPM
'enhancements' is fairly mechanical', less so is addressing
the addition of certain dependency finding and other
'convenience' macros used in later RPM versions
That said, a 'general' path to building packages that do not
require invasive changes [1], is to build with the older
tools, tweaking the .spec file, as needed
-- Russ herrold
[1] as a genearl rule, for compatability, one wants to leave
untouched glibc, rpm, python, and yum
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