[CentOS-devel] mock-0.9.19 on CentOS5/RHEL5

[Florian La Roche]

Hello Brian,

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:29:20PM +0100, Brian Schueler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm also going to update all my C5p buildservers to mock-0.9.19

Mock works fine for x86 and x86_64 to re-compile python-ctypes
from EPEL. No problems there at all.

> and try to build the needed stuff upon Python 2.4 (-devel) which
> is normally shipped with [base]. Is it right that I have to
> update Python to 2.5 (shortly for building) to get the missing
> ffi member (see below) accessed that seems to be in there?

Your question is about porting CentOS to a completely non-supported
platform. The mainframe port is prepared from Red Hat and thus
creating a CentOS Mainframe release should be rather straight-forward.
Arm is even more outside and a completely new port.
You need to decide if CentOS5 is the right start or if Fedora-arm is
better suited. Changing something like python to a new major version
will for sure also give quite a few headaches...

regards,

Florian La Roche