Between RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6 the default RPM compression format was
changed to xz. As such, trying to build a recent Fedora or Cent6 SRPM on
Cent5 will error out with a message like
error: unpacking of archive failed on file foo;51a4c2a5: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
because tar …
This post is part of a series of older draft posts from a few months ago that I’m just getting around to publishing. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a build system that meets my requirements (see the last paragraph).
At work, we have a handful - currently a really …
more ...I’ve been doing a lot of RPM packaging lately, and on different (and
very old) distros and versions. Sometimes I lose track of all of the
macros used in specfiles (_bindir _sbindir dist _localstatedir, etc).
There’s no terribly easy way to dump a list of all of the …