yum for mock in RHEL 6?

[Haïkel]

2015-06-15 11:47 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Bridon <bochecha at fedoraproject.org>:
>
> Kevin didn't say anything about it being silent.
>
> By all means, do warn people that mock is going to use yum instead of
> dnf as it should.
>
> But an application should never print an error message telling the user
> what they can do to get the error to go away. That's just bad design.
>
> If the application knows what the user should do to get around the
> error, then the application should just do it itself.
>
> Finally, you're basically saying that mock requires dnf to build
> "proper" Rawhide packages. You're a package maintainer, it is your
> responsibility to maintain the dependencies for your package in all the
> Fedora/EPEL branches where your package is.
>
> That means if mock requires dnf (and its plugins) to build Rawhide
> packages, and you maintain mock in EPEL, then it is your responsibility
> to make sure that dnf (and its plugins) are in EPEL.
>

+1 for the last paragraph.

We need to fix this asap.

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