Some mock ideas

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 19:09 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:51 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:22 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > 2) Include the buildgroups data in the config packages. There could also
> > > be a /etc/httpd/conf.d/buildgroups.conf file in the base package that
> > > would point to the buildgroup data in /usr/share/mock.
> > 
> > What's bought by this?  Less dependency on the network?  Although you
> > still need to download the packages from somewhere.  Note that if this
> > was done, no need to use httpd -- just use a file:/// baseurl
> 
> No, you can't. Chrooting causes anything above the chroot to become
> inaccessible.
> 

yum runs on the chroot from OUTSIDE the chroot - so it can use the
file:/// urls. Nifty trick, that. :)

-sv