Mock going forward

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 16:56 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:38 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> >> Well, because in 0.7 and greater, there is no mockhelper. The
> >> /usr/bin/mock program is a setuid root launcher that starts "python
> >> /usr/bin/mock.py"  with whatever arguments were passed in. 
> > 
> > Ok, I haven't played with the 0.7, but surely you've made some space
> > available to do commands like this?  We depend heavily on being able to
> > install a package or package list in the buildroot then run some
> > commands in the buildroot.  Its an integral part of our tree composition
> > tools.
> > 
> 
> The 'chroot' command for running commands in the build root is still
> there, so you can run whatever you need in the chroot. What remains is
> to make it easy to install arbitrary rpms into the chroot. I think the
> way to do this is to have an 'install' command that accepts binary rpms
> (i.e. doesn't involve yum repositories) and runs the host rpm to put the
> contents into the build root.
> 
> Hmmm. Thinking about this a bit more makes me wonder if we need to be
> able to install rpm's *using* yum, since yum brings with it the ability
> to resolve dependencies. I say this because the RPM we just generated
> with mock might have Requires: that aren't in the build chroot and would
> need to be there for installing the the rpm prior to running rpmlint. I
> hate to add one command to install a local rpm and another to install
> using yum. A quick scan of the yum man page makes me think that it might
> work to just invoke 'yum install <path to rpm>'.
> 
> Can anyone confirm/deny that invoking yum with a path to an rpm will
> work (I'm not in a position to do so at the moment).

yes, it works.  You might want to check where it expects to find the rpm
when using an installroot ie: does it find it in /path/to/rpm or
installroot/path/to/rpm.

I don't remember which at this moment.


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