Re: Changes in mock?

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On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 19:58 -0400, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> > Am Montag, den 10.04.2006, 14:57 +0100 schrieb Paul Howarth:
> >> Christoph Wickert wrote:
> >> [that he's having trouble with mock's macros..]
> >>
> >> mock uses "yum groupinstall build", which in FC5's yum does not  
> >> pull in
> >> the buildsys-macros package.
> >>
> >> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-March/ 
> >> msg02015.html
> >
> > Ok, thanks for the pointer. Although I red this message before I  
> > wasn't
> > aware that _this_ was my problem.
> >
> > Your workaround works fine here but does this mean I can no longer use
> > any "%if "%fedora" >" statements in my specfiles?
> >
> > Chris
> 
> It may be easier to do this:
> 
> Edit your local /etc/mock/*.cfg files, and change the 'buildgroup'  
> setting to be:
> config_opts['buildgroup'] = 'build build-base build-minimal'
> 
> That way, mock will call yum as: 'yum groupinstall build build-base  
> build-minimal', and you'll get all the packages you'd expect, and it  
> saves you creating a local repo as Paul described.

Ah, now that's a *much* better idea. Thanks Jeff!

You can still use the conditional builds in your spec files because the
mock/yum versions on the fedora Extras buildsystem don't have this
problem (yet), and I would expect there to be a long-term fix for this
before the buildsystem got upgraded.

You could read this thread for more:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-buildsys-list/2006-March/msg00016.html

Paul.

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