development packages and multilib
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Fri Apr 24 15:41:36 UTC 2009
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:35:43AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> said:
> > I said it in my email further up: you can't nest mock builds, and it
> > requires extra steps by root to configure mock.
>
> "usermod -a -G mock rjones" is not that much work for root.
>
> Of course, you can further restrict it using sudo if you wish.
And edit or create a mock config files for the new mock repo.
Most Unix programs can be built using:
./configure
make
But a program that needs mock has a bunch of other configuration steps
that have to be carried out by root. OK, maybe not such a problem for
manual builds. But now if you want to move that into an auto-build
environment (test builds, Koji, etc), you've got a problem.
BTW don't take this as some criticism of mock. It certainly isn't.
I'm _using_ mock all the time for auto-builds. I want to build
appilances inside mock. I'm using febootstrap inside mock. It all
works great.
Rich.
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