[CentOS] build system for cutting edge software

[Matthew Miller]

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.

Add EPEL, and then:

  sudo yum install docker-io
  sudo service docker start
  sudo docker run -i -t fedora /bin/bash

There are some already-existing docker recipies built automatically -- see
the list at  <https://github.com/fedora-cloud/Fedora-Dockerfiles> and then
try, for example:

   docker run -d -p 80:80 fedora/apache

and presto, apache running on port 80.


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