On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:44:39PM -0700, Rich Megginson wrote:
>Yes, I know Centos 4 and RHEL4 are popular. My point was that I
didnt
>think that many people actually ran mock on them. I've gotten very
>little in the way of feedback from people running mock on EL4. The vast
>majority of people (that I know about) running mock do so on
>Fedora-<recent>, or RHEL5.
>
>As always, there are a very few people who might actually be running
>mock there, I just havent heard from them.
>
I tried it - I had to hunt through the epel testing repo to find a
yum/mock that would actually work on rhel4. However, if I can happily
use fedora to build el4 packages with mock, then I would rather do that
than actually have to run el4 just to build packages.
So with mock 0.8.x, I can build el4 and el5 packages on fedora?
Absolutely. I do it *all the time*, as I distribute several packages for
EL4/5 from the dell repository (
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software),
and mock is what I use to compile them.
I maintain mock very much because it is a dogfood thing for me. :)
--
Michael