Mock and old distributions

[Paul Howarth]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 22:31 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Seeing that the need for elfutils in the buildroot for FC4 was
>> discussed
>> in the latest FESCO meeting, I thought I'd report the results of my
>> efforts to build packages for various old distributions using the
>> current version of mock on FC5:
>>
> 
> Thats awesome Paul!  Any chance I could get you to add this to the wiki
> somewhere so that it won't be lost?  I'm sure we'll need this info at
> some point.

I'll update the Legacy/Mock page on the wiki. However, first I'd like to 
know what, if anything, will get fixed upstream or in the infrastructure.

For instance, the mock package in Extras is currently shipping with 
config files for Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9, plus Fedora Core 1-devel. The 
best place to fix the issue of needing "su" rather than "runuser" for 
FC2 and earlier would be in these config files (i.e. an upstream fix).

Similarly, the differing requirements for packages needed in the 
buildroots would best be addressed by having the existing infrastructure 
at http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/ updated to include 
buildsys-build packages for all of the mock-supported distributions with 
the correct dependencies for each.

I can raise bugs for these issues if that's preferred.

That would then just leave the issues that end users need to address on 
their own systems, which are best described on the wiki (though adding a 
reference to the wiki pages might be a useful addition to the mock README).

Paul.