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