RE: Patches for shared configurations items and specifying additional dependencies

[Michael E Brown]

Don't know if anybody else brought this up, but could the
shared-configuration be implemented by putting an
"execfile('/etc/mock/default.cfg')" at the beginning of the config
file?
No patches necessary.
--
Michael 

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: fedora-buildsys-list-bounces(a)redhat.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of 
>  Andreas Thienemann
>  Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:27 PM
>  To: Discussion of Fedora build system
>  Subject: Patches for shared configurations items and 
>  specifying additional dependencies
>  
>  Hello List,
>  
>  as it seems to be patch submission time, I'm pushing two 
>  patches to the list, I had lying around for some time now.
>  
>  The first patch allows mock to parse a generic side-wide 
>  config file, where general configuration-items can be stored 
>  and later overridden by specific chroot-definitions.
>  
>  
>  The second patch, is a bit different:
>  While pushing the Fedora Core SRPMS through the mock 
>  buildsystem we noticed many SRPMS which do not correctly 
>  define their buildrequirements. 
>  Until the fedora core developer responsible for the package 
>  has updated the spec in cvs and pushed an updated srpm into 
>  rawhide, there is no way to make the package in question 
>  build in mock without having to change the .spec.
>  Thus, in order to allow even these broken packages being 
>  built, we needed a way to work around these broken 
>  dependencies to see if anything else was missing.
>  This is done by the second patch, which adds a more_buildreqs 
>  config option. If set the given dependencies are installed 
>  _in addition_ to the ones from the .spec file.
>  
>  While the second patch should not be used during normal use 
>  and is definetly not for the fedora-extras buildservers, it 
>  still is of interest to other parties, using mock.
>  
>  
>  
>  regards,
>   andreas
>