Fabian Arrotin wrote: > 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. > > 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 That is true for up to CentOS 4. EL 5 seems to be built on the same systems they build fedora on. > .... 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/) As said: Not true anymore for EL 5. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20080829/a4da51a6/attachment-0007.sig>