In article 1208548520.4908.58.camel@wx1.larc.nasa.gov, Philip R. Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner@NASA.gov wrote:
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 17:05 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
Hi, I want to take a SRPM that is available for various versions of Fedora and rebuild it on a CentOS 4 system.
Which release of Fedora is the closest to CentOS 4? In other words, which would be the best FC to take the SRPM for?
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
Originally, Red Hat based Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Red Hat Linux, but using a much more conservative release cycle. Later versions leveraged technologies from Fedora which is a community distribution and project that Red Hat sponsors. Roughly every third version of Red Hat Linux (RHL) or Fedora forms the basis for a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, thus:
* Red Hat Linux 6.2 -> Red Hat Linux 6.2E * Red Hat Linux 7.2 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 * Red Hat Linux 9 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 * Fedora Core 3 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 * Fedora Core 6 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 * Fedora 9 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (projected)IIRC the RHEL (and thus CentOS) branches from Fedora have been from late test versions rather than the final releases. I have had pretty good luck building packages from a Fedora release or 2 later than the branch version on CentOS. My $0.02 is to try the latest SRPM for a particular package that will build successfully, rather than going all the way back to FC3 for EL4-based systems. You will often need to build dependencies from Fedora as well. Probably goes without saying, but check the 3rd party repos first before embarking on custom builds.
Thanks, that's useful info. I had found the kbs-CentOS-Extras repository, which has a lot of useful stuff, but didn't have libconfuse. I installed the SRPM of libconfuse for FC6, and it built on CentOS4 without any problems (once I had installed check and check-devel from kbs).
Cheers Tony