On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:09:14PM -0500, Mike McLean wrote:

On 11/12/2009 01:40 AM, Florian La Roche wrote:

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if you want to run the newest version of mock (0.9.19) with RHEL5/CentOS5, you can use a backported version from:

http://www.jur-linux.org/rpms/el-updates/5/SRPMS/mock-0.9.19-1.el5.src.rpm http://www.jur-linux.org/rpms/el-updates/5/i386/mock-0.9.19-1.el5.noarch.rpm

So basically just reverting the dbus patch (2046136e)?

Perhaps since RHEL5 is something of an important platform for mock we should consider making this codepath conditional, or otherwise fix this without forking.

Hello Mike,

this small change is all that is needed, at least for a first start. I've put this into bugzilla in August and Clark has done a clean patch within two days, but it is not commited into the public repo and also no new rpm has been pushed out. See bz 516355 for details.

Karanbir: You've already emailed the current CentOS position to have one mock version across all of CentOS3/4/5 running and that the newest bits don't qualify for that. This could maybe change next year once CentOS3 does not get updates anymore. I could see similar decisions like e.g. keeping to a mock version starting at initial release of a new major CentOS push-out. (Then CentOS-5 would always stick to the mock release that was used for CentOS-5.0...) Another idea that Red Hat would probably support is to just use the same mock version that also Red Hat uses for their releases, just to have another data point that CentOS is really 100% compatibel to RHEL. (Keeping infrastructure the same should be extended to as many parts as possible.)

regards,

Florian La Roche