Patch for BZ 303791?

[Clark Williams]

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Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:06:12PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:00 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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>>> seth vidal wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 12:40 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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>>>> Is it time to start writing simple, custom yum-utils just for mock? So
>>>> it can call them as a program but also so mock can more rigidly control
>>>> its output?
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>>> Maybe....
>>>
>>> Are you talking about stuff that is a part of mock, a part of yum, or a separate
>>> package altogether?
>> part of mock.
> 
> I agree. More of a long-term thing, though. Here is my list of stuff we
> need to work on:
> 
> 1) "inside-out" setuid scheme (part of an overall revamp on how we see
> security for mock running. We currently dont have a coherent strategy or
> vision).
> 2) use yum-utils rather than calling cmdline
> 3) better caching (downloaded yum stuff, chroot cache)
> 4) more reliable mount/umount
> 5) Speedup options: ccache/distcc

All good. I agree completely.

Now tell me if my short-term fix for $SUBJECT is acceptable :)

Clark
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