Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:17:00PM -0700, centos@911networks.com wrote:
When I am looking for a package that does not exist under rhel5, is it better to get rhel4 or fc6?
Get RHEL5 and install the fc6 package on it.
Or better yet, grab the FC6 SRPM and recompile it on your RHEL5/FC6 to be sure all your shared libraries, etc match. Very simple to setup and perform as a non-root user:
#configure your non-root user's rpm build environment
mkdir $HOME/rpm mkdir $HOME/rpm/SOURCES mkdir $HOME/rpm/SPECS mkdir $HOME/rpm/BUILD mkdir $HOME/rpm/SRPMS mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386 echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros
#build the rpm against your installed platform
rpmbuild --rebuild your-fc6.src.rpm
Jay