Remove gcc, gcc-c++ and make from minimal build root

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 01/14/2015 04:00 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> On 01/13/2015 06:01 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>> > > that all being said. koji doesn't use any caching and will not use
>>> > > the lvm plugin. we make every buildroot from scratch using a fully
>>> > > clean environment to help with ensuring reproducability.
>> > 
>> > You can cache and still preserve reproducability. What I'm planning
>> > for Copr is to do (every week/month) for chroot in fedora-20-x86_64
>> > fedora-21_86_64 ... ; do mock --init $chroot
>> >   done
>> > take snapshot of that. I plan to do that on VM level.
>> > And when new task come, I will just restore from that snapshot. And
>> > mock will start with already populated cache. So I will have better
>> > caching and yet reproducability.
> you really can't.  you would need to make a new cache any time one of
> the packages in the minimal buildroot changes.

That is why mock run 'yum update' on minimal buildroot before proceeding further.
So if one package in buildroot changes, you will just download and install just that one package and all other comes
from cache.

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Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS
Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys