I am looking to be a bit more standard in the builds of my CentOS rpms, and so I was about to install mock but noticed that there is one provided in the centos/5/extras and another in epel.
epel is obviously newer, but are there reasons/experiences in this group that would suggest sticking with the extras version instead? Or even reasons other than the shiny version number on the epel one to go with it?
Is the extras version the version used by the upstream provider and thus the CentOS team keeps it around to do the matching builds?
Thanks for the clarifications.
--- On Mon, 11/2/09, Todd Denniston Todd.Denniston@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil wrote:
From: Todd Denniston Todd.Denniston@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil Subject: [CentOS] mock, extras vs epel To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:09 PM I am looking to be a bit more standard in the builds of my CentOS rpms, and so I was about to install mock but noticed that there is one provided in the centos/5/extras and another in epel.
epel is obviously newer, but are there reasons/experiences in this group that would suggest sticking with the extras version instead? Or even reasons other than the shiny version number on the epel one to go with it?
I'm a rank and file package builder too. Of course, Mock is not part of Centos base and you can't damage your install by using it, since it runs in a chroot.
Use the latest version (which might be epel) and get the hang of it - you may not like using it.
If you want to do broad searches about mock in C5, try the centos-dev group from the lists.centos.org page or #centos-dev on IRC.
On 11/03/2009 12:09 AM, Todd Denniston wrote:
Is the extras version the version used by the upstream provider and thus the CentOS team keeps it around to do the matching builds?
The mock in extras is what we use to build the distro against and is the only version we work with on the buildsystems. depending on what you are doing, that issue might or might not be relevant.
Karanbir Singh wrote, On 11/03/2009 04:57 AM:
The mock in extras is what we use to build the distro against and is the only version we work with on the buildsystems. depending on what you are doing, that issue might or might not be relevant.
Thanks for yours and Mr. X's feedback. Off to try mock out and see if I do or don't like it. :) And do a little thinking on the relevance of using the distro version of mock.
Todd Denniston napsal(a):
I am looking to be a bit more standard in the builds of my CentOS rpms, and so I was about to install mock but noticed that there is one provided in the centos/5/extras and another in epel.
epel is obviously newer, but are there reasons/experiences in this group that would suggest sticking with the extras version instead? Or even reasons other than the shiny version number on the epel one to go with it?
Is the extras version the version used by the upstream provider and thus the CentOS team keeps it around to do the matching builds?
Thanks for the clarifications.
Hi Todd, I use mock from our repo: http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/i386/repoview/mock.html http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/x86_64/repoview/mock.html David Hrbáč
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