[ELGIS] Getting started with mock..

[Volker Fröhlich]

Am Freitag, 11. November 2011, 08:50:36 schrieb Mathieu Baudier:
> > I'd like to point out on spectool, which makes downloading sources more
> 
> > pleasent:
> Cool! Didn't know this one.
> I confess I reinvented this particular wheel in the automated builds...
> (see below)
> 
> > Mathieu, why do you create the SRPM in Mock instead of straight with
> > rpmbuild?
> 
> Actually I don't I discovered this feature of mock when writing the
> first mail yesterday and Iput it because I thought it could be more
> streamlined fro Tyler (and others) to have a consistent approach
> through mock.
> 
> Of course you can use:
> rpmbuild --nodeps -bs rpmbuild/SPECS/mypackage.spec
> (with the sources in SOURCES)
> 
> --nodeps here is to avoid installing all the deps in your real (non
> chrooted) environment, since mock will take care of this.

Remark: You only need --nodeps on EL5. SRPMs don't have dependencies, and 
somebody fixed that for EL6, it seems. I'm also working with a shell alias for 
rpmbuild, that directly specifies "sourcedir".

> 
> Whether I build on my workstation or on the servers, these are
> environments which are used for our work, mostly around Java, and they
> must stay clean and lean.
> 
> # NOTES ABOUT THE RPM FACTORY
> (just for those interested)
> 
> As for the RPM factory, as you can see in SVN each package has its own
> {SPECS, SOURCES, etc.} structure. Actually the RPM factory generates
> rpmmacros / rpmrc files in the directory containing the path to the
> directory as a %topdir.
> 
> So if I really need to, I actually use each package directory of the
> SVN working copy has a standalone rpmbuild tree, so that I can modify
> the spec files and the patches directly in SVN.
> 
> This RPM Factory is based on our (Argeo) own software (which is Free
> Software) and the main focus is not to reinvent mock (or, hum,
> spectool) even though it makes in configuration a bit easier, but
> rather to focus on what comes after:
> - provisioning of the local staging repo
> - signing
> - publication and storage
> - etc.
> 
> As I told some of you already, I hope that it will soon be stable
> enough for those interested to use it.
> But even though, I'm using this system for more than a year with
> ELGIS, I'm always making sure that it is easy to rebuild ELGIS only
> with standard tools and regular scripts.
> 
> I'm really happy about 'spectool' and 'mock --buildsrpm' because I
> will be able to dump some of the related code (beauty of Free
> Software: the less code the better, whereas the "value" of proprietary
> software is measured in code lines count :)