Custom CentOS spin

Corey Quinn corey at sequestered.net
Fri Jun 14 17:14:25 UTC 2013


On Jun 14, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:50:05 -0400
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It's exceptionally difficult and unreliable for RHEL or CentOS to
>> build packages for current or recent releases with "mock" or other
>> chroot cage tool kits. Too many non-backwards compatible changes in
>> RPM and yum.
> 
> Hum? rpm and yum in the mock chroot are the versions from RHEL/CentOS
> when you are building against those. Perhaps I am not parsing what you
> are saying here. 

Right. Nico is asserting that building packages for modern Fedora on RHEL or CentOS is difficult and unreliable. Building packages for RHEL or CentOS on modern Fedora is trivial.

-- Corey


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