On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:27 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 It's a good answer. But Johnny Hughes (as opposed to JohnS)? Can you publish or provide source control access to those bootstrap tools necessary to build the CentOS 6 staged environment? I can bootstrap a test environment with those, but don't want to re-invent your particular wheel. It would be particularly useful for pre-testing patches for the existing bugs for folks like me who like to do that sort of thing.