[CentOS] noob question about mock

Michael Gliwinski Michael.Gliwinski at henderson-group.com
Wed Jan 5 11:45:15 UTC 2011


On Wednesday 05 Jan 2011 00:18:36 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:00 PM,  <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
> > Michael Gliwinski writes:
> >> Actually, mock can build an SRPM from spec file and dir with sources:
> >> 
> >>   $ mock --buildsrpm --spec=/path/to/spec --source=/path/to/src/dir
> >> 
> >> I've been using it at least since 1.0.5, which is definitely in EPEL,
> >> not sure if it was available in older versions.  Sure it may require
> >> some scripting around it to automate it but it has the advantage of
> >> verifying build depends, etc. so it's worth it IMO.
> > 
> > Cheers for that!
> 
> I wonder if it would help with the "nosrc.rpm" packages for JPackage?

It does, sort of ;)  Before openjdk I was building nosrc.rpm for Java from 
JPackage using this method, but IIRC it requires some manual mocking about 
(sth like init mock buildroot, download files required by the nosrc.rpm (e.g. 
the Java distributable for Java) into some specific directory in the 
buildroot, then continue the build).


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