On 11/20/2007 11:44 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Stephen, please note that we are not simply speaking about machines _running_ a specific distro but about machines running a distro _and_also_ doing development. As Michael has pointed out, one can very well do development on one distro (i.e. run mock on a Fedora box for instance) and test the compiled stuff on EL-3 / EL-4 / EL-5.On Nov 20, 2007 2:29 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy nobugconsulting ro> wrote:On 11/20/2007 11:20 PM, Michael E Brown wrote:On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:05:46PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:Ok I am going to ask the harder question :). How does this affect RHEL-4 and such?Does not affect RHEL4. I dont intend to upgrade mock in RHEL4 at this time, as I dont have a box to test this out on. Nor do I think it worth the effort to do so, as I doubt there are any users (or at least *very* few, if any.)I have to contradict you here. To my knowledge Centos 4 is quite popular and even though lots of people have switched their devel boxes to C5 or Fedora, those still using C4 need love, too.>From what I can tell with 3 sites, the numbers are the following: 60%+ EL-3 30%+ EL-4 5% + EL-5 5% other.
BTW, I think that it would be nice to have a clear reference somewhere in the wiki for configs with the options needed to build for EL-3. (Yes, I know EPEL does not support this distro but a) as pointed above there are quite a lot of machines in use and b) it would not hurt.)