On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 9:43:53 AM CEST Panu Matilainen wrote:
On 6/4/19 9:56 AM, Daniel Mach wrote:
> Dne 31. 05. 19 v 2:15 Pavel Raiskup napsal(a):
>
>> On Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:38:25 AM CEST Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>>
>>> Dne 29. 05. 19 v 23:52 Josh Boyer napsal(a):
>>>
>>>> If we did this, wouldn't it make it very difficult to use tools
like
>>>> mock on RHEL / CentOS 7 to build for Fedora 3x?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Speaking of Mock:
>>> Either the RPM on host need to understand the new format/compression
>>> **or**
>>> the packages in @buildsys group (including transitional deps) have to
>>> be in
>>> old format - then you can build for Fedora 3x using bootstrap feature.
>>
>>
>>
>> I need to underline this, it would be really really really bad if we
>> were
>> not able to --installroot fedora chroots at least on RHEL 8. How likely
>> is a backport of zstd support into RPM in EL7+?
>
> RHEL 8 should be quite easy - get zstd package into RHEL and recompile
> rpm with zstd support.
>
> RHEL 7 is a different story. The patch doesn't apply directly and a
> backport would be needed.
>
> Panu,
> how difficult it would be to backport the zstd support to RHEL 7 RPM?
Technically, backporting rpmio backends is almost trivial, even to much
older rpm versions.
Getting new features into older RHEL is a much bigger problem.
- Panu -
Has there been any progress on this?
What is the recommended way to build Fedora 31+ RPMs on a RHEL-7 host?
Kamil