On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 18:40 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Just for the record, we have several build machines. They are currently > all CentOS-5 machines. At any point in time, the rpm version on our > current build machines is whatever the latest version is in CentOS 5 as > we run nightly updates on all our build servers against our CentOS tree. > > At this exact point in time, that would mean that the version of RPM on > our current build machines is 4.4.2.3-20.el5_5.1 ... > > On the inside of the mock build roots, it will be the latest version of > RPM for the version of centos that the build is being done for ... if > building a centos-4 package, it would currently be > 4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1, for centos 5 it would be the one listed above > (4.4.2.3-20.el5_5.1) and for centos 3 it would be rpm-4.2.3-32_nonptl. > > If we are building on a STAGED repo that contains a built RPM in the > repo (like building for 5.6, for example) then the inside the mock > buildroot would be the NEW version of RPM that is in 5.6. Thanks, non of the other antics were needed. Question answered. Close the thread. John