[CentOS] mock, extras vs epel

Tue Nov 3 18:46:02 UTC 2009
David Hrbáč <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz>

Todd Denniston napsal(a):
> I am looking to be a bit more standard in the builds of my CentOS rpms, and so I was about to 
> install mock but noticed that there is one provided in the centos/5/extras and another in epel.
> 
> epel is obviously newer, but are there reasons/experiences in this group that would suggest sticking 
> with the extras version instead? Or even reasons other than the shiny version number on the epel one 
> to go with it?
> 
> Is the extras version the version used by the upstream provider and thus the CentOS team keeps it 
> around to do the matching builds?
> 
> Thanks for the clarifications.

Hi Todd,
I use mock from our repo:
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/i386/repoview/mock.html
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/x86_64/repoview/mock.html
David Hrbáč