Joe Pruett 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? > > first off, i don't seem to be getting all of centos-devel. of this > thread (6 messages on lists.centos.org), i only seemed to receive my > initial post and the one from dag. are there any known problems with the > devel email list? You are the first to complain. So - no, there aren't known problems. All mails to your address I can find in the maillog have been taken by the MX for your domain with a status of 250. > second, even though karanbir will be trying to build the rpms i am > interested in, so far no one has actually answered how we know what > rpmbuild command line to give. there are lots of --define possibilities > and i don't see that info available from a binary rpm. so how do we know > how to build a package? As said (for CentOS 5): If you build an SRPM via mock/plague, you're doing it nearly the same as Red Hat does: In a clean environment. 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/20080901/67f9d4ea/attachment-0007.sig>