mock configs for other flavors?

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 12:25 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 12:17 -0500, Chris Weyl wrote:
> > Hey all--
> > 
> > Before I go about reinventing the wheel, does anyone have (or can
> > point me to) sample mock config files for RHEL3/4?
> > 
> > I'm also carrying on a rather spiritied conversation about using
> > plague to build for other distros (e.g. mandrake) over here, and would
> > love to be able to prove them wrong:)  So, really, mock configs for
> > any flavor/distro would be most appreciated...
> 
> Hey, if patches are required to do this, that's fine.  Some issues I'd
> see:
> 
> 1) How do those other distros update packages?  Do they use yum?  If
> not, what kind of repository metadata do the update tools for those
> distros use?  (ie, instead of calling createrepo on the server we'd need
> to call something else)

Well it shouldn't matter for the plague run. All yum is doing is making
the chroot so as long as the repository for the other distros has the
repodata made then it can work w/o any need for the distro to use yum.

-sv