mock 0.8.9 for EPEL-5

Michael E Brown Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Tue Nov 20 21:44:18 UTC 2007


On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:35:54PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:02:11PM -0600, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > 
> > Because the config format changed in Fedora and all of 3 people emailed
> > me about it.
> 
> Looks like enough people to me, but...
> 
> > > But why not have just fixed the nasty bug only and leave the old mock?
> > 
> > Mock in EPEL5 is 0.7.2. I have an *experimental* 0.7.7 patchset that
> > has been verified to *not* fix the problem. The change from 0.7.2 to
> > 0.7.7+patch to fix this is, in itself, a pretty large jump with several
> > new features.
> 
> ... in that case I guess you'll have to update. It doesn't looks like
> very EPELish to me, but I understand the issues you are facing, and I
> withdraw my opposition.

Thank you.

Based on the discussion, I will plan on pushing an update into testing
this week. I will send out another note once that has been done.

Thank you to everybody who contributed to the discussion, as well.
--
Michael




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