[CentOS] build system for cutting edge software

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.

- Gergely