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On Aug 29, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 9:43:53 AM CEST Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On 6/4/19 9:56 AM, Daniel Mach wrote:
>>
>> Dne 31. 05. 19 v 2:15 Pavel Raiskup napsal(a):
>>
>>>> On Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:38:25 AM CEST Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dne 29. 05. 19 v 23:52 Josh Boyer napsal(a):
>>>>
>>>>> If we did this, wouldn't it make it very difficult to use tools
like
>>>>> mock on RHEL / CentOS 7 to build for Fedora 3x?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Speaking of Mock:
>>>> Either the RPM on host need to understand the new format/compression
>>>> **or**
>>>> the packages in @buildsys group (including transitional deps) have to
>>>> be in
>>>> old format - then you can build for Fedora 3x using bootstrap feature.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to underline this, it would be really really really bad if we
>>> were
>>> not able to --installroot fedora chroots at least on RHEL 8. How likely
>>> is a backport of zstd support into RPM in EL7+?
>>
>> RHEL 8 should be quite easy - get zstd package into RHEL and recompile
>> rpm with zstd support.
>>
>> RHEL 7 is a different story. The patch doesn't apply directly and a
>> backport would be needed.
>>
>> Panu,
>> how difficult it would be to backport the zstd support to RHEL 7 RPM?
>
>
> Technically, backporting rpmio backends is almost trivial, even to much
> older rpm versions.
>
> Getting new features into older RHEL is a much bigger problem.
>
> - Panu -
Has there been any progress on this?
What is the recommended way to build Fedora 31+ RPMs on a RHEL-7
With “mock”, available from EPEL.