On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 12:20 -0500, 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... First a note to Robert: miredo-server is a separate rpm package, but it is built from the same source rpm as the other miredo packages. I donloaded the src rpm for Fedora 20. That package depends on having systemd (so it would most likely work on RHEL7). If I remove the systemd references (the requires/ build requires and the .service files) it builds without any more issues. If you can create your own init files you should be all set. The changelog says: Tue Apr 24 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> - 1.1.7-8 - Migrate to systemd, BZ 789782. so if you take a Fedora 1.1.7-7 or earlier src rpm, you could probably easily take the spec file and use the 1.2.6 tar file to build a working setup regards, Louis