[CentOS-devel] Advice on compiling multiple packages with mock

Tue Sep 27 11:52:17 UTC 2011
Patrick Lists <centos-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl>

On 09/27/2011 01:44 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Can someone point me in the right direction? How do you compile multiple
> packages continuously with mock?
>
> I have some 50 srpms waiting to be recompiled via mock for both i386 and
> x86_64 (again).
>
> 1. Is there a command I can give so all the packages are compiled in one go?
>
> 2. Do I have to sort them in proper order (dependencies) or can I just
> command to mock to check and sort them?
>
> Any help is appreciated, examples welcomed.

Smock (which uses mock) might help:

"Smock is a thin wrapper around mock to let you build up a whole set of
dependant RPMs against an external distro."

http://git.annexia.org/?p=fedora-mingw.git;a=tree;f=smock

Regards,
Patrick