On 08/20/2015 11:49 AM, Paul Millar wrote: > Hi Owen, > > On 20/08/15 17:37, Lamar Owen wrote: >> Thanks for the detail. Can you verify on 6.6 (or previous) that >> installing the 6.6 (non-patched) version of redhat-rpm-config also >> causes the defaults to be SL-5 incompatible? > > AFAIK, before the patch-level 44 releases, there was no > redhat-rpm-config in SL-6. redhat-rpm-config has been in the base SL repo since SL 6.0, in 2011. See ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/os/Packages/redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-25.el6.noarch.rpm It's easy to miss since it previously wasn't a hard requirement for rpm-build, but it's been there since the beginnings of SL6. > I can carry on with the work-around I found. I actually appreciate your posting of the workaround, since for package-building for EL5 I have kept an EL5 buildhost for some internal packages, since I hit this with EL6.0 back in 2011. But I have installed redhat-rpm-config as part of my standard package-building installation in EL6 since I first started using EL6 (I use CentOS 6 for the most part, but CentOS and SL are almost identical for my purposes). > > The problem is that earlier versions of dCache don't have explicitly > configured hash and compression values in their spec files. This > means that I now cannot rebuild earlier tagged dCache versions and get > the same RPMs. I understand your frustrations. > > Do you know where and how I should report this? You could probably report it to Red Hat's bugzilla, but it would likely be closed WONTFIX.