On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:14:25 -0700
Corey Quinn <corey(a)sequestered.net> wrote:
On Jun 14, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:50:05 -0400
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)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.
Ah, I see.
IMHO, you should use mock anytime you build any packages, and if you do
that, the platform you run mock on largely doesn't matter (with a few
rare corner cases).
kevin