mock rfe - buildgroup

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:32:17PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2007 15:26:42 Michael E Brown wrote:
> > Looking through your patch:
> >
> > +++ b/etc/defaults.cfg
> > +config_opts['chroot_setup_cmd'] = 'groupinstall buildsys-build'
> >
> > This could be problematic for F7, F6, EPEL4/5 and others.
> >
> > I see two (three?) ways to handle this:
> >
> > 1) only add this line to -devel.
> >
> > 2) change the default in mock.py, and override F7/F6/EPEL4/EPEL5
> > configs.
> >
> > 3) add this line to -devel, and then migrate it to (2) above after a
> > period of time (perhaps when we drop F6?)
> 
> Yeah, I had this fleeting thought when I was doing it, then promptly forgot 
> about it.  One of those days...
> 
> I think 2 is probably safest, if people have locally modified their configs, 
> but I was also thinking we'd only make this change in rawhide, so it would 
> only be rawhide people who get it, not pushing it out to existing Fedora/RHEL 
> setups, so 3 is probably fine too.

I dont like to make changes specific to one distribution as that
requires thought on my part and I am likely to mess it up, or forget
about the distro specifics next update. The only solution in that case
is to branch, which brings its own overhead.
--
Michael