yum for mock in RHEL 6?

Mathieu Bridon bochecha at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 3 14:31:24 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 14:19 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 2.6.2015 v 06:56 Dave Johansen napsal(a):
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mock#Mock_on_EL_6_and_EL_7:_Yum.2C_a
> > nd_DNF
> > 
> > I just ran into this issue and I was wondering if it's possible for 
> > this flag to be add to the default config on RHEL 6/7.
> 
> Technically yes.
> 
> Politically no.
> 
> As stated in refered blog entry:
>   http://miroslav.suchy.cz/blog/archives/2015/05/20/why_mock_does_not
> _work_on_el_6_and_el7_and_how_to_fix_it/index.html
> I decided to go with 3rd option. And you must manually acknowledge 
> that you are creating builds non-standard way and
> they may differ from builds made on Fedora.

Except that builds made on Fedora Koji all use yum to populate the mock
chroot, not dnf.

As a result, it is the mock default configuration of using dnf which is
non-standard.


-- 
Mathieu



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