Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> so in general, how do we know how the upstream builds things? are there >> logs somewhere on ftp.redhat.com to look at? or do we have moles that >> tell us? >> >> i'm not even thinking about mock type stuff right now, just trying to >> figure out the actual rpmbuild command line to use. > > Well, you should think about mock in that case - because that is how it > is built. > > Cheers, > > Ralph Hmm, afaik Upstream doesn't use mock for EL .. i think they use a 'homebrew' builder system and they don't publish the logs/builder system specs/etc .... Talk to several CentOS developers and they confirm that it sometimes hard to guess what's the minimal chroot they use to build the package .. sometimes BuildRequires: are missing if you want to build it with a buildsys group like the one CentOS is using (http://dev.centos.org/centos/buildsys/) However using mock is surely the best way to rebuild such SRPMs .. and that's what a lot of people do (including CentOS project) -- - Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."