Getting CentOS up to date on SPARC

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 06:37 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 07:28 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:09 +0100, Karanbir Singh
wrote:
> > > David Hrbáč wrote:
> > > > Karanbir Singh napsal(a):
> > > >> We should try and get a proper
buildsystem on there, so that people can
> > > >> request builds and get the built
pkgs online somewhere ( dev.centos.org
> > > >> would be a good choice, i think )
> > > >>
> > > >> Since most of the guys have local
machines to test + do -devel stuff on,
> > > >> a single buildbox of this nature
would be great.
> > > > 
> > > > Well, are we going to use Mock? Last few
weeks I've been playing with
> > > > Mock on Centos, and it works pretty
fine.
> > > 
> > > no. We dont / cant use Mock or any such
builder for the distro. I am 
> > > doing some docs + a sort of HOWTO for people
to use the system that we 
> > > have in place. Will post it on the wiki and a
URL here as soon as its done.
> > 
> > Why can't mock be used?
> > 
> > -sv
> > 
> > 
> 
> As you should well be aware 
> 
> There are many hidden build requirements in the FC3 /
RHEL4 package set.
> So, a technology like mock will not (at lease easily)
properly build all
> packages for that group of packages.
> 
> The upstream team is working hard to address those
issues and it should
> not be the case with newer distros.  They will
(supposedly) properly
> call out all build requirements.
> 
> If all the packages properly called out all their
"build requires", then
> using a system like mock would work (that is, using a
system that
> creates a chroot containing a core set of packages and
all the "build
> requires" of the package to be built).
> 
> Currently, the CentOS build team uses a predefined
build host to build
> packages.  That build host is a controlled machine that
has the latest
> version of the arch in question and no other packages.
> 

those buildreqs are being fixed, in core, for fc6 - which
means they
should trickle into rhel5. I wasn't talking about using
mock for current
builds - just for future ones.

-sv


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On Jun 26, 2006, at 7:47 AM, seth vidal wrote:
>>
>> Currently, the CentOS build team uses a predefined
build host to  
>> build
>> packages.  That build host is a controlled machine
that has the  
>> latest
>> version of the arch in question and no other
packages.
>>
>
> those buildreqs are being fixed, in core, for fc6 -
which means they
> should trickle into rhel5. I wasn't talking about
using mock for  
> current
> builds - just for future ones.
>

To illustrate what I meant by "populating", let
me point out the  
technical detail
in FC6 that there are *still* missing dependencies like
     Requires: gcc, make

These of course are no-brainers that are supplied by the
choice of the
packages that are always installed.

So the issue is really that mock as currently used in FC6
has fewer  
packages in base,
thereby exposing more missing build dependencies than are
present in  
FC3/RHEL4.

hth

73 de Jeff

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