Joe Pruett wrote:
so in general, how do we know how the upstream builds things? are there logs somewhere on ftp.redhat.com to look at? or do we have moles that tell us?
first off, i don't seem to be getting all of centos-devel. of this thread (6 messages on lists.centos.org), i only seemed to receive my initial post and the one from dag. are there any known problems with the devel email list?
You are the first to complain. So - no, there aren't known problems. All mails to your address I can find in the maillog have been taken by the MX for your domain with a status of 250.
second, even though karanbir will be trying to build the rpms i am interested in, so far no one has actually answered how we know what rpmbuild command line to give. there are lots of --define possibilities and i don't see that info available from a binary rpm. so how do we know how to build a package?
As said (for CentOS 5): If you build an SRPM via mock/plague, you're doing it nearly the same as Red Hat does: In a clean environment.
Ralph