proposed mock changes (diff)

[Clark Williams]

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Jeff Sheltren wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Clark Williams wrote:
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>>
>> Now, I really don't like the idea of adding *anything* to the default
>> build chroot (other than what's required to build a package). It's
>> slow enough as it is and for the most common usage (plague/mock
>> builds) we don't want anything except what's absolutely needed. So,
>> how would we go about managing a chroot for tasks like testing? Do we
>> add an 'install' command to install stuff from the configured
>> repositories into the chroot, like this:
>>
>> $ mock install rpmlint
>>
>> Or do we do something else? Do we make tester's put together their own
>> cfg with a modified buildsys-build rpm that includes the packages they
>> need? Is there a simpler mechanism for someone that wants a chroot for
>> testing?
>>
>> Clark
>>
>
> I've always just used yum from the host system with the
> --installroot flag.  You don't want to rely upon the RPM tools
> inside of the chroot because those won't always work - remember, we
> are doing all the package installs with the host system's yum in the
> first place.  My vote would be to keep mock as simple/minimal as
> possible.
>
Ah, I hadn't thought about that. RPM and friends work fine in the FC5
chroot on my FC5 laptop, but I'm betting an FC2 chroot would yak all
over the place. :)

So someone wanting to put together a testing chroot would do something
like this:

$ mock -r fedora-5-i386-core init
$ yum --installroot=/var/lib/mock/fedora-5-i386-core/root
- --enablerepo=<my FC5 repo> install <my packages>
$ mock -r fedora-5-i386-core chroot <my test command>

I probably don't have that yum command right, but you should get my
intent. Is that the way you use it?

Clark



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