Smock successor?

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Thu Apr 4 16:30:02 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:34:22AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:47:12 +0200
> Johannes Lips <johannes.lips at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name>
> > wrote:

> > > I have been using smock.pl regularly and since it was not developed
> > > recently. I wonder what everyone else is using, e.g. does something
> > > better exist? If not, I am planning to give it a proper new home,
> > > currently I am trying out gitorious:
> > > https://gitorious.org/smock/smock/
> > >
> > I think there is mockchain, which should do the same thing, or?
> > https://skvidal.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/mockchain-use-cases-and-examples/
> > 
> 
> Yes - mockchain exists and is already in the mock package. So you
> should be able to just use it for that end.

Is it intended to be feature complete? Smock looks more like a simple
build system, because it supports to build multiple archs/distros at
once and uses deterministic repositories and mockchain only supports a
subset of it.

Regards
Till


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