Mock going forward

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sun Sep 3 22:11:38 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 16:32 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Kind of an aside...
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > It might be worth moving /usr/bin/mock.py to be somewhere that's not in
> > the path... otherwise, this is bound to be somewhat confusing[1]
> > 
> > Jeremy
> > 
> > [1] To me, if to no one else :-)
>
> Ah, it's all about you, Jeremy :)

As often as I can arrange :-P

> I had considered it but was more concerned with other things (like
> trying to clean up the BZ's for 0.6).
> 
> Where would you suggest? /opt/mock?

Nah, just that /usr/bin/mock should probably execute
perhaps /usr/libexec/mock.py -- that way, you don't do 
  moc<tab><tab>
and get hits for both mock and mock.py and become confused as to which
you're actually supposed to use

Jeremy




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