Using mock to build a chain of packages

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:20:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 12:22 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:53:33AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > AFAIK, the packages must be listed in the repodata for the resolve step to
> > > be successful. Installing directly into the guest rpm db is not enough.
> > > And when updating the repodata to be used by mock+yum, be sure to disable
> > > the metadata_expire value, so updated repos are recognised always.
> > 
> > Any hint about how I do this?
> > 
> > Rich.
> > 
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> 
> You need to modify your /etc/mock/whatever-you-use.cfg file to point to
> a local repository. I've got one like this:
> 
> [mock-updates]
> name=mock-updates
> baseurl=file:///net/home/rcc/tjb/mock-updates/8/x86_64/

Brilliant, that worked - thanks.

Rich.

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