On 11/20/2007 11:44 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Nov 20, 2007 2:29 PM, Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy(a)nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
> On 11/20/2007 11:20 PM, Michael E Brown wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:05:46PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ok I am going to ask the harder question :). How does this affect
>>> RHEL-4 and such?
>>>
>>>
>> Does not affect RHEL4. I dont intend to upgrade mock in RHEL4 at this
>> time, as I dont have a box to test this out on. Nor do I think it worth
>> the effort to do so, as I doubt there are any users (or at least *very*
>> few, if any.)
>>
>>
> I have to contradict you here. To my knowledge Centos 4 is quite popular
> and even though lots of people have switched their devel boxes to C5 or
> Fedora, those still using C4 need love, too.
>
>From what I can tell with 3 sites, the numbers are the following:
60%+ EL-3
30%+ EL-4
5% + EL-5
5% other.
Stephen, please note that we are not simply speaking about machines
_running_ a specific distro but about machines running a distro
_and_also_ doing development. As Michael has pointed out, one can very
well do development on one distro (i.e. run mock on a Fedora box for
instance) and test the compiled stuff on EL-3 / EL-4 / EL-5.
BTW, I think that it would be nice to have a clear reference somewhere
in the wiki for configs with the options needed to build for EL-3. (Yes,
I know EPEL does not support this distro but a) as pointed above there
are quite a lot of machines in use and b) it would not hurt.)