On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:05:03AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 04.07.2007 09:48, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> [...]
> I am checking which package I'd like to put in EPEL and it appears that
> some informations are lacking, that I can find easily with rpmfind (for
> example), but I cannot for RHEL. Here is a list of things I would like
> to do, from a non Centos/RHEL box, or from another Centos/RHEL version,
> of course. Do you have guidance on how to do it?
mock + chroot? Or install CentOS in a VM?
Indeed mock and chroot may be very usefull for testing package
functionnality and build, but it is not exactly what I am looking for.
As a side note I cannot find a mock config for centos to be used
for mock builds of epel, looking through the wiki (although they are
reference to such a thing existing, for example
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#head-f9e8c36dc22934ebff5e9c6ec537f...
and I remember seeing a reference to those files on a list).
> Keep in mind that I would
> like something easy, (like what rpmfind provides, for example) not something
> complicated (like download all the srpms and work out from the spec
> files):
>
> * find whether a package is in RHEL or not
Simply look at the CentOS dir like?
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/
It is really the same than:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/
with all the subdirectories?
(well is
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/centos/4/os/
the same ?)
> * find whether a file is in RHEL or not, and in which package
> * find whether a provides is in RHEL or not, and provided by which
> package
> * find the list of files and provides of a package in RHEL
I've never used rpmfind, but if it can serve you this information for
Fedora it might be able to serve it for CentOS as well (which "aims to
be 100% binary compatible").
Ok, this clarifies things a lot. I hadn't understood that Centos was
interchangeable for RHEL for EPEL.
--
Pat