building rpm packages for older distributions.

[Richard Siddall]

Elias Abacioglu wrote:
> I want to build some cross-compatible packages.
>
> My build server is a CentOS 6.2 and has rpm-libs-4.8.0 and rpm-4.8.0.
> The problem is that i want to install rpms on older distributions.
>
> So the question is, is there a way to build packages with "legacy" support?
> Like some way to force the rpm to use other payload and filedigest methods
> that have wider support.
>
> Cause it feels kind of backwards to install centos 4 to build rpm packages
> that should work on old and new versions of rpm.
>

I use mock to build RPMs for older versions of CentOS.  It installs a 
minimal CentOS in a chroot to perform the build.  You can get mock from 
EPEL.

	Richard.