Re: [CentOS-devel] How Centos compiles SRPMs from Red Hat

On 04/07/2012 12:33 AM, Peter Penzov wrote:

I have some questions to ask:

1. What build server do you use and how is configured? Can you paste the

mock configuration? (If you use mock)

we use mock on x86_64 hosts, power7 is starting off. I've attached a mock config here.

2. How much time is necessary to build the complete OS?(all packages)

how long is that piece of string ?

3. When you download the SRPMs from Red Hat ftp server how do you remove

the old packages from the latest?

we dont remove anything

4. Are there any hidden stones?

Information about the infrastructure used, where its hosted and how its configured is considered privileged information and isnt released to the public; its also site specific and has no bearing on what we deliver to the users. In a nutshell: its a bunch of servers, Where they are, and who / how they are managed isnt public. Everything else is just a case of rpmbuild -ba <srpm>; rinse + repeat.