[RFC, PATCH] Build multiple srpms

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 09:36 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> > As I mentioned to matt,  Jochen, from several months ago, wrote a patch
> > to do manual creation of a cached chroot so we could simply copy that
> > image into place if it exists and run a 'yum update' on it to make sure
> > it is current.
> 
> I remember seeing it in the archives. Do you think we should look at
> merging that patch into the current yum?

into yum? it doesn't need to go into yum. The feature need only be added
to mock.

> My situation is a bit strange, since I use mock to maintain a "host"
> environment that contains a "sysroot". The sysroot is a set of target
> libraries and headers files that are used to generate packages for a
> non-x86 Linux system.  So, I have an environment that gets built up
> over time as packages state their requirements.  Since a clean of the
> chroot would blow away my sysroot, I don't want that to happen and go
> to great pains to insure that all the config files default 'clean' to
> false and all command lines have --no-clean.  I suppose I could copy
> the sysroot out after the build and back in before a new build, but
> that just seems hokey...

so is there something WRONG with --no-clean? Does that not meet your
requirements?

-sv