On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 09:39:08AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/09/2017 07:54 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2017, at 4:08 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > >> Hi all. I'm using a CentOS 6.8 VM to do volunteer builds for an open > >> source project. I want to build Pale Moon with a gtk2 library older > >> than 2.24, to allow people with older linuxes to run it. Short summary, > >> if built against version gtk2-2.24 and/or higher, the binary will use a > >> function that does not exist in gtk2-2.23 and lower. Net result is that > >> the program dies with an "undefined symbol:" error for people with > >> machines lower than gtk2-2.24. Yes, before you ask, they do get > >> security fixes backported. > >> > > [snip] > > This ^^ (use mock). > > You can use mock chroots in sandbox mode to manually get whatever > install you want, or if all the things you want are in (for example) > CentOS 6.5, you can point your config files for mock to use 6.5 repo > from http://vault.centos.org/ and build against that. > The OP noted the target environment has security fixes backported. Is the same true of a mock environment built from vault.centos.org? If not, could a binary built under mock introduce old flaws?
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