mechanism to retain system library versions

[Paul Howarth]

On 18/12/13 13:19, Neal Becker wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> On 12/18/2013 02:06 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>>> During the past few months, I've switched from building my software against a
>>> bundled version of boost libraries, to building against the system boost
>>> libs.
>>
>> Is your software packaged in Fedora?
>
> No, this is not intended for Fedora, or any external use.
>
>>
>>> How do others solve this problem, or can anyone think of a solution?
>>
>> For Boost, building packages on all the Fedora releases you want to
>> support should work because Boost usually offers source-based backwards
>> compatibility.
>>
>
> So you're suggesting that I could have either:
>
> 1) find a non-critical system, update that to f20, rebuild software, before
> updating critical system
>
> or
>
> 2) somehow build against f20 libs on an f19 system?

I do that using mock.

Paul.