On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 23:27 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 15:47:21 Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > If I understand correctly, this is an orthogonal issue which isn't > > > limited to querying rpm. For example, different *emacs versions inside > > > and outside the buildroot is just as likely as different rpm versions. > > > What makes querying them for versions instead of rpm safer, more > > > predictable, and more reproducible? > > > > Because you're querying the emacs in the chroot not outside the chroot. In > > the case of rpm, the rpm _outside_ the chroot was used to populate the > > chroot, and the rpm database version that winds up in said chroot does not > > match the version of rpm that gets installed inside the chroot. > > mock runs rpmbuild inside the chroot. Why doesn't it break? --nodeps? all the operations performed on the rpmdb in the chroot are done from outside the chroot, not inside. -sv -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
