On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:10:57PM +0200, Gergely Buday wrote:
However, sometimes I would like to use fresh software that is not available as a package. Compiling from source is indeed an option but because centos uses oldish sources not only the sought package should be built but a lot of other packages. 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?
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.
And although I haven't done this, I believe that they are integrated with Coprs (http://copr.fedoraproject.org/), which is a buildsystem for making and hosting your own repositories. This will build for Fedora or RHEL/CentOS (or both at once).