On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Gergely Buday <gbuday at gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 May 2014 04:50, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: >> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 01:30:24PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> > An idea is to build it in a directory, as much independent as it is >>> > possible from the installed libraries on the centos installation. Is >>> > there an automated build system for such an endeavour? >>> Run Fedora as a VM? >> >> Or, run Docker with a Fedora container. > >> You might be interested in Software Collections. See >> <https://www.softwarecollections.org/>. This is basically a system for >> packaging RPMs that instal in /opt instead of into the distribution proper. > > Thanks, software collections seem to be the thing I imagined. No > wonder that somebody has already done it. > You may also want to look at Open Build Service (from openSUSE) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Build_Service> and the portal <http://openbuildservice.org/> Purportedly, you can build packages for several distributions. YMMV - no personal experience. -- Arun Khan