[RFC, PATCH] Build multiple srpms

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 14:35 -0500, Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:

> Future: 
>         One future direction I'd like to take this is a parallel mock
> that can prep/build multiple configurations at the same time to try to
> amortize the cost of prep stage by running prep of one environment in
> parallel with build of a different configuration. Currently, it is
> taking me an hour to build 16 sets of RPMS (5 SRPMS per set), and I am
> hoping to get this down. We have already implemented squid and some
> other measures to try to speed things up.
> 

parallelizing mock will NOT happen in the fedora mock branch. Period.

Distributing out the items like that are suited to plague, not mock.
Adding the features into mock is putting a lot of complexity where it is
not needed.

with regard to not cleaning the chroot b/t rebuilds: If you want to do
it for the srpms then pass --no-clean and pass in a series of srpms. But
breaking the expectation to the user that the chroots will be completely
pristine is not safe and, to me, violates the purpose of mock.


-sv