I've just released mach 0.4.0 - it might interest you because it's a very useful tool to write clean spec files and build clean packages.
Please give it a spin, read the README and these release notes, and experiment. I appreciate all feedback, good bad, or ugly bugs.
mach - make a chroot - RELEASE NOTES ------------------------------------
Announcing the release of mach 0.4.0 - "Barcelona"
WHAT IS IT ---------- mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any distribution or distribution variation supported.
This clean build root can be used to run jailed services, create disk images, or build clean packages.
mach can currently set up roots for the following distributions: - Red Hat 7.2 (basic, updated, FreshRPMS) - Red Hat 7.3 (basic, updated, FreshRPMS) - Red Hat 8.0 (basic, updated, Fedora, JPackage, GStreamer, FreshRPMS) - Red Hat 9 (basic, updated, Fedora, JPackage, GStreamer, FreshRPMS) - SuSE 8.1/8.2 - Dave/Dina oven/fridge
Read the README included in the distribution for a better overview.
WHY WOULD YOU USE IT -------------------- mach is helpful: - to create minimal chroot environments to jail services in - to create clean packages for distributions - to catch spec file mistakes, missing buildrequires, and more
INFORMATION ----------- mach's homepage is at http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/ mach is hosted on SourceForge; the project page is http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mach/
QUICKSTART ---------- a) On a Red Hat 9 system, install the mach rpm from http://thomas.apestaart.org/download/mach b) su - mach c) mach setup base d) mach chroot poke around a bit in the fresh root e) exit f) mach rebuild http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/SRPMS.os/vorbis-tools-1.0-3.src.rpm
If all goes well, you'll get a nice freshly built vorbis-tools package.
Now go out, experiment and bug report !
BUGS ---- Please report all bugs to me at thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org.
Always state what platform you are running on, if it's a clean install or somehow updated, how I can reproduce the bug, and output of a run of the failed command with -d (debugging).
Thomas
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Thomas Vander Stichele