On 19 May 2014 04:50, Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 01:30:24PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
An idea is to build it in a directory, as much independent as it is possible from the installed libraries on the centos installation. Is there an automated build system for such an endeavour?
Run Fedora as a VM?
Or, run Docker with a Fedora container.
You might be interested in Software Collections. See https://www.softwarecollections.org/. This is basically a system for packaging RPMs that instal in /opt instead of into the distribution proper.
Thanks, software collections seem to be the thing I imagined. No wonder that somebody has already done it.
- Gergely