Differences between koji and mock rawhide environments?

[Jesse Keating]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> writes:
>> Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> escribió:
>>> postgresql is currently failing to rebuild in rawhide:
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3499379
> 
>> so the builders are all rhel6 and the buildroots all have dns
>> resolution disabled. we are all running an older mock due to the number
>> of bugs were were hitting with newer mocks and pty handling.
> 
> The answer turned out to be that glibc-2.14.90-15.1 broke it, but for
> some reason it took *two* days for that to show up in mock's image of
> rawhide.  Is that expected?  Could we do something to cut down the lag?
> I find it hard to visualize a situation where building in a stale image
> of rawhide is especially useful.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane


You can use the koji command I gave earlier to create mock configs that will use koji content directly.  Otherwise we don't have much we can do about the amount of time it takes to get to a nightly tree and get that nightly tree synced to all the mirrors one might use.

- jlk