Speeding up koji-generated mock builds

[Jon Stanley]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Alan Franzoni <mailing at franzoni.eu> wrote:
> So here come the questions:
> 1) Am i missing anything?

Nope

> 2) are all those options intentionally locked out?

Yes, the entire point of koji is reproducible builds. Allowing a
binary blob tarball to be extracted into your buildroot leaves you
(potentially) not knowing what went into that buildroot, therefore you
can't make the database entries of exactly what was in the buildroot.

> 3) would a patch which let them be configured be accepted into your git repo?

Not a koji developer, but I sure hope not :)

> 4) any other way to speedup mock?

I'll let someone else answer here, I find the times quite acceptable
(~45 seconds to populate a buildroot, which is the only thing that
root_cache would speed up).