On 07/03/2014 02:16 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > 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 > > thanks! More to puzzle through.