Looking new RPMs for CentOS 6.

[Chuck Anderson]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 01:03:51PM +0000, Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 09/02/15 13:00, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >
> >Am 09.02.2015 um 13:33 schrieb Phil Mayers:
> >>On 09/02/15 01:29, Carl Byington wrote:
> >>>On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 16:10 +0200, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> >>>>I had some issues in some old versions of CentOS 6 for a caching
> >>>>server so I have compiled bind from sources.
> >>>
> >>>You might try the building the source rpm packages at
> >>>http://www.five-ten-sg.com/mapper/bind
> >>
> >>These are very good RPMs BTW. Thanks for doing this.
> >>
> >>One tiny suggestion - would it be possible to make the contents, minus
> >>the bind source tarball, available separately? This will save you some
> >>bandwidth and let those with fast connections download the spec+patches
> >>from you, then download bind from a fast or local mirror. Just a thought
> >
> >the whole purpose of a src.rpm is that one can just do "rpmbuild
> >--rebuild package.src.rpm" and that's the correct way
> 
> Is it really? Wow, thanks, I didn't know that!
> 
> /sarcasm
> 
> My point was that Carl generously hosts these, and while many people
> will download the full .src.rpm, some people - such as myself -
> would, if offered, download the .spec+patches as a tarball, and the
> bind tarball separately, saving him some bandwidth and load.

He could build a nosrc.rpm by using NoSource: tags instead of Source:
tags in the spec file.

> For what it's worth, not everyone does "rpm --rebuild". We unpack
> the .src.rpm and put the .spec+patches into our "mock" buildsystem.

No need to unpack.  mock -r epel-6-x86_64 bind-foo.src.rpm