On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:03, Hubert Bahr <hab at hbahr.org> wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> i write this mail after more people ask me in private. and since the >> centos core devel team not share any info about it's build system, >> status, there modifications, doesn't have any public revision system >> and not really accept any help or advice for outside. >> but i still believe these are useful info for many others so i try to >> summarize our rhel-6 rebuild experience. >> > Thanks for the summary of your experience. In my case I created a build > environment much as you laid out but I am still doing everything as > rpmbuild --rebuild rather than a Mock environment. I ended up with 36 > packages not building and did have to import a couple of fedora packages > to get it to that number. In comparing my list to yours, you have > solutions to 11 of those on my list. I will be attempting those when I > have the time. My question is this. Are these the only packages you > were unable to rebuild, or do you still have some left to resolve? I > noticed a few of mine failed with unpackaged elements so I assume those > may be resolved with a change in build options. I used to believe that > if I just found the right environment all of RedHat's sources would > rebuild. I now have found out that, this belief was very naive. everything else build, except that i've to find the reason why yum wouldn't like to install 32 bit packages into a 64bit system in mock (but this is bot an rh problem). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"