Re: [CentOS] noob question about mock

Hi,

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 13:51 +0000, nux@li.nux.ro wrote:

As far as I could read about it, mock essentially rebuilds srpms so to use it I would need a separate "classical" build environment to create those srpms in the first place. Am I right or did I get something terribly wrong?

Since CentOS is an rpm based system you will almost always be rebuilding from srpms and *not* from plain tar balls. Repos catering for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora provide srpms by default.

However, if you want to make your own (s)rpms or patch existing ones you will indeed need a "classical" build environment to do so. And since there are a couple of packages that mock will not build you will need a fallback build environment for such cases.

Regards, Leonard.