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 -