mock and fc5/fe5 and comps pain
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Dec 19 06:05:58 UTC 2005
> Your proposal was to have mock perform the prep install from a set of
> specially named fake packages rather than from comps groups. I believe
> this patch allows that.
>
> My current thinking is that I'd like to keep using the comps groups and
> just make sure that my yum and my repos and in alignment. This patch
> allows that.
>
two questions:
1. what does giving this option buy us? Other than more code to
maintain, I mean.
2. why wouldn't you just go on using the older mock?
> ...or perhaps this is more or less what you had in mind all along, but I
> go the impression that mock support for using groups was in danger of
> disappearing.
very much so.
-sv
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