bugzilla #164441 (mock-helper and basedir)

[seth vidal]

> I can't speak for Seth, but I'm fairly sure the answer here is "use bind
> mounts".  Seth is very big on the FHS, and in the FHS, that's where the
> buildroots and other stuff for mock are supposed to live.  I've asked
> about this long ago, when starting to use mock for the build system, and
> that was the answer.  Seriously, bind mounts are neither complicated,
> nor problematic, though I haven't done a ton of testing with NFS.


The fhs is our friend. :) However I don't think we're suggesting
changing the default location for mock just making it possible for
someone else to do something like that. And if we can do that securely
then, sure.


-sv