Steven Munroe <munroes...@gmail.com> writes: > I come from a different culture and experience. I am not as conversant > in Fedorian as I should be. So I tend to misunderstand what is plain > to you all.
Really, it's nothing specific to Fedora. The same would apply to any GNU/Linux distro (or other OS with a typical packaging system without a robust backwards compatibility story). > From my experience, installing (something like) devtoolset on Fedora > was not an outlandish idea, Apparently it is. It surprises me if that's IBM experience, and it's a bit worrying for our new system. > So installing a centos 7 VM instance on my local power8 seems like a > better option. Really, it isn't necessary, any more than it was for me on the Fedora development system. I run VMs for Fedora development, but that's because I'm personally a Debian user, and I don't think Debian has the relevant tools available, apart from some version of mock. You do sometimes need a VM when the kernel matters, but not most of the time. (The container support that's now in mock does allow me to build for rawhide or EL8 on RHEL7 -- thanks to whoever implemented that -- not just the other way round.) Is this sort of thing not clear in the packager documentation coming from cold? If not, I guess someone would improve it. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
