how to speed up mock

[Sérgio Basto]

On Qua, 2012-05-30 at 01:03 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: 
> hi,
> i've to ask it again what i already asked a few times. is there any way
> to speed up mock build?
> here is a simple example when i build gstreamer-plugins-bad-free on
> rhel-6.2:
> -----------------------
> 2012-05-30 00:45:24,367 - Mock Version: 1.1.22
> 2012-05-30 00:45:24,377 - State Changed: unpacking root cache
> 2012-05-30 00:45:27,610 - State Changed: cleaning yum metadata
> 2012-05-30 00:45:27,639 - State Changed: running yum
> 2012-05-30 00:45:30,914 - State Changed: unlock buildroot
> 2012-05-30 00:45:31,026 - State Changed: setup
> 2012-05-30 00:50:09,980 - State Changed: build
> 2012-05-30 00:52:34,094 - State Changed: end
> -----------------------
> as you can see it takes about 5 minutes to setup the buildroot
> environment, while it takes 2.5 minutes to build it. so it's still 2
> times more the extra stuff compared to the build. even in a case of a
> 'long' build package (some other package build less then a minutes).
> 
> disk space and cache size is not a problem.
> 
> any kind of tipp would be welcome.
> thanks in advance.
> regards.

mock -r fedora-16-x86_64  --rebuild (...).src.rpm --no-clean


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Sérgio M. B.