Using mock to build a chain of packages

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 12:22 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:53:33AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > AFAIK, the packages must be listed in the repodata for the resolve step to
> > be successful. Installing directly into the guest rpm db is not enough.
> > And when updating the repodata to be used by mock+yum, be sure to disable
> > the metadata_expire value, so updated repos are recognised always.
> 
> Any hint about how I do this?
> 
> Rich.
> 
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> 

You need to modify your /etc/mock/whatever-you-use.cfg file to point to
a local repository. I've got one like this:

[mock-updates]
name=mock-updates
baseurl=file:///net/home/rcc/tjb/mock-updates/8/x86_64/


I have a simple script (attached) that moves the results of one build
into my local mock-updates repo and runs createrepo to make it a valid
repository. So build A, run script, build B which needs A, and it should
work. 

Thanks,

tjb
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