On 07/03/2014 01:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >>> Have you tried the simple-minded approach of downloading the fedora >>> src rpm and doing an 'rpmbuild --rebuild' of it? Sometimes all it >>> take to make that work is installing whatever dependencies are >>> missing, sometimes that turns out to be difficult or impossible, >>> depending on required versions and conflicts. You might have a >>> better chance of making this work after Centos 7 is out, though. >>> >> For various reasons I lean toward installing software over doing my own >> builds. No one else is going to do the write ups I need for >> management. > Sure, but the rpm package you get from rebuilding an existing fedora > source rpm is going to be essentially the same thing you'd get if the > maintainer built it for centos6/EPEL. That is, all of the things > that would make it 'your' build have already been done by someone else > and coded in the spec file. If it works... > >> I have been asked to setup a testbed to show how this works >> now, and I have not seen that Miredo is any more available for Centos >> 7. Also the datacenter where my testbed would be moved to will be on >> Centos 6 for some time. >> >> But you might have more knowledge Miredo for Centos 7 than I do... > Not specifically about those, but just in terms of compatibility > between a fedora src rpm and the Centos environment. A lot of things > have changed in libraries and rpm syntax between centos 6 and current > fedora so you are fairly likely to have some problems rebuilding an > unmodified src rpm. On the other hand you should still be able to > find fedora 19 src rpms and that environment should be very similar to > Centos 7. So the rpmbuild would be much more likely to 'just work' - > with the result also being very likely to be compatible with what > would land in EPEL if the maintainer decides to add it. > Ah, so taking the src from remlab.net might not successfully build. Putting up a Centos 7 beta (I could redo rigel to C7) and getting the F19 source, I should be more successful. So where is miredo for F19? Not at: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/19/Fedora/source/SRPMS/m/ I know it is available for Fedora 20 as finished rpms.