On 10/24/2007 09:24 PM, Richard Megginson wrote:
Hello. I have a question about building java packages for epel4 using
mock (fedora-4-i386-epel.cfg). There are several yum repos that mock
uses to populate the buildroot. But the ant package (and all of its
dependents) are not in any of them afaict. In RHEL4, ant and its
brethren are in the RH Developer Suite v.3 channel. Is there a
recommended epel/centos yum repo that has ant? Or, alternately, how
should I add ant and its dependencies to my epel4 buildroot? I found
this -
http://watzmann.net/blog/index.php/2006/10/19/using_mock_to_build_rhel_pa...
- but I'm hoping there is a solution that doesn't involve setting up
yet another repo.
If a package you need is not included in base, updates, EPEL or
the
buildsys system, you have to a) either add yet another repo containing
the packages you need or b) wait for the required packages to be
available in EPEL (or even try to push them yourself there)
In this particular case, since the package you need is available via a
different RH channel, one should get in touch with RH and see if they
are willing to transfer it either to EPEL or to base, because EPEL will
never knowingly compete with RH channels and it cannot contain packages
which have dependencies outside the base/updates/EPEL suite. Since ant
is included in RH5.0, I'd say there is a fair chance to have ant
included in base.