On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 09:35:30AM +0100, Miroslav Suchy wrote: > Hi, > I just released mock-1.2.7. It have - beside one small bug and new F22 > configs - one important change. > > The rawhide configs have this one line included: > config_opts['package_manager'] = 'dnf' > which means that Mock will use DNF for building packages for rawhide > targets. There are two consequences, which I would like to point out. > > This change is done only in Mock, but not in Koji. M.McLean is working on > Koji code enhancement, which allow to do this change in Koji too. The ETA is > 1-3 months. During this transient period Koji will use YUM for rawhide > targets, while your local mock builds will use DNF. We would like to use > this period to get broader testing of Mock+DNF before it reach Koji. If you > experience some problem (I believe there will be none) please report it, so > we can address it before we deploy this change on Koji. > > RHEL/EPEL users do not have DNF available, therefore they are unable to > build packages for Fedora Rawhide. There is however a workaround. Just > change this line: > config_opts['package_manager'] = 'dnf' > to this: > config_opts['package_manager'] = 'yum' > or you can simply delete it because Yum is the default. > Or you can pass "--yum" to mock. Could it be an idea to check if /usr/bin/dnf exists (or if dnf can be found in $PATH) before calling dnf and if not a) warn the user and b) switch back to yum? This would make mock run out of the box for RHEL/EPEL users as well. Pierre -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
