Ralph Angenendt 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?
i'm not even thinking about mock type stuff right now, just trying to figure out the actual rpmbuild command line to use.
Well, you should think about mock in that case - because that is how it is built.
Cheers,
Ralph
Hmm, afaik Upstream doesn't use mock for EL .. i think they use a 'homebrew' builder system and they don't publish the logs/builder system specs/etc .... Talk to several CentOS developers and they confirm that it sometimes hard to guess what's the minimal chroot they use to build the package .. sometimes BuildRequires: are missing if you want to build it with a buildsys group like the one CentOS is using (http://dev.centos.org/centos/buildsys/) However using mock is surely the best way to rebuild such SRPMs .. and that's what a lot of people do (including CentOS project)