mock, "megadeps" and PyPI

[Robert Kuska]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at redhat.com>
> To: "Fedora Python SIG" <python-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:35:48 AM
> Subject: mock, "megadeps" and PyPI
> 
> Jeff Fearn reminded me today of "mock --megadeps", a patched version of
> mock he created that supports recursively downloading and building
> dependencies in a chroot, without incurring the overhead of setting up
> and tearing down multiple mock build environments the way the chainbuild
> command does.
> 
> The mock RFE is at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843745,
> while Jeff is now maintaining the patched version at
> https://github.com/jfearn/mock
> 
> I'm bringing this to folks attention mainly due to one of the neat
> features it has embedded in it, which is integration with CPAN: it can
> use cpanspec to create an SRPM on the fly. That's likely not going to be
> of suitable quality for Fedora itself, but it should be good enough for
> COPR and potentially even Playground.
> 
> My question is whether it would be practical to do something similar
> with pyp2rpm. Bonus points if we can come up with a way to integrate it
> nicely with COPR, or even tidy up the implementation to the point where
> we can convince Clark to accept the feature as part of mock itself :)
> 

Hi Nick,

I have created vague named issue[0] at pyp2rpm repo we can discuss it there.
I will post my opinion later, next week probably, currently I am off from work.

> Regards,
> Nick.
> 
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[0] https://bitbucket.org/bkabrda/pyp2rpm/issue/13