[CentOS-devel] [CentOS] OT: About rebuilding RHS and RHEV

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 06/28/2013 04:21 PM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Baptiste AGASSE
> <baptiste.agasse at lyra-network.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to rebuild JBoss EAP 6.0.1 (which was used bay RHEV engine) and RHEV 3.1 from SRPMs some months ago without success (missing some dependencies). I used mock. A week ago I've successfuly built JBoss EAP 6.1 Final from sources (with some little changes because Redhat don't publish some maven plugins and dependencies like slf4j, byteman, hibernate3, junit).
>>
>> Have a nice day.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> ---
>> Baptiste
>>
> Thanks Baptiste. After reading docs about RHEV, I have discarded
> (rebuilding RHEV and RHEM is too much). But not RedHat Storage Server.
> Reading about it, I see it is based in RHEL EUS 6.2.z and not RHEL 6.4
> as I had been assumed.
>
> I have located the updates that RedHat has released for RHEL 6.2.z
> since Centos ceased to publish patches for 6.2 release.
>
> My question: If I not wrong, mock uses jails or chroot environments to
> rebuild packages. Can I use a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 host to rebuild all
> patches released by RedHat for RHEL 6.2.z and Storage Server 2.0
> without problems?? Does someone has tested?
mock does not care about the build host, as long as it can a) read the 
source rpm and b)  properly access the repositories needed to create the 
chroot.