Fedora Legacy buildsystem

[Jeff Sheltren]

On Jan 26, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 10:32 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>
>>> Mostly this is a side effect
>>> of our current build system making use of apt for its package
>>> installation steps.  In the future we will not need apt for this,  
>>> so the
>>> apt metadata step may go away.
>>
>> I've been trying (and failing) to get mock to work for a rh73 target.
>> What does legacy use now?  What will it use in the future?
>
> I think going forward plague is the answer, but it can't share the  
> same
> build machines as Extras currently uses for a variety of reasons
> (security, system load, permission granularity, etc).  Anything that
> prevents mock/yum/plague from being used to build packages for Legacy
> will certainly get my attention and some of my time.
>
>
And some of my time, too!  Although I do have mock/plague working  
with RH7.3 - Rex, if you want to send more details of your problem  
maybe I can help.

-Jeff