[CentOS] Significant speedup of package building with mock from EPEL for RHEL 6, should definitely go in CentOS 5

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:39 AM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:13 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 02/02/2011 01:01 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> > Karabhir, what are the odds of encouragng a switch to
>> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/mock-1.1.8-1.el6.src.rpm, and
>> > backporting it to centos/5/5/extras ? It's working very well for me,
>> > and I think it would be a helpful improvement in RPM building for both
>> > the CentOs 5.6 and CentOS 6 efforts.
>
> Hmmm: Nico
>
> The requested URL /fedora-epel/6/mock-1.1.8-1.el6.src.rpm was not found
> on this server.
>
> Maybe this:
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/SRPMS/mock-1.1.8-1.el6.src.rpm ?
>
> How many SRPMS have you built with it?  Do you use it under EL5?
>
> John

I just found a nasty bug. Hold off on using that.