On 24/03/2020 12:08, Vít Ondruch wrote:
Dne 24. 03. 20 v 11:43 Tom Hughes via devel napsal(a):
> On 24/03/2020 09:32, Aleksandra Fedorova wrote:
>
>> ELN is an evolution of the request for an alternate buildroot for
>> newer x86_64 processors. The reasoning behind that new buildroot was
>> that we expected that the next major release of RHEL would likely drop
>> support for older hardware and therefore could take advantage of
>> enhancements and processor extensions available for newer hardware. As
>> plans for this proceeded, they expanded into a desire to do more than
>> just test out the processor architecture. Instead, we want to have a
>> complete alternative compose of Fedora Rawhide that resembles the way
>> that Red Hat and CentOS builds their packages. The idea being that
>> Fedora developers and third-party vendors who rely on Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux have a place where they can directly contribute to
>> what will eventually become the next RHEL.
>
> For those of us who know little about the details of RHEL and CentOS
> can you elaborate on what is different in the way that they build their
> packages compared to Fedora?
The attempt to explain this was in the following paragraph you have trimmed:
Ah OK I think I misunderstood.
I thought the above was saying there were fundamental architectural
differences in the way the builds worked, rather than just that people
might choose to make different choices in the spec file.
Tom
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