On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:43:35PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 05:27:12PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 5:24 PM Gwyn Ciesla via devel > > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > It's needed for testing builds against versions of packages not yet in > > > mock. I use it almost every day. Losing it would make things like testing > > > solib bumps harder. > > > > I've done local test builds for soname bumps and similar things lots > > of times, and I've never used (or thought about using) fedpkg local > > for that. > > I used "mock --chain" or a combination of "mock --postinstall > > --no-clean" for those builds ... which is much closer to what koji > > will do with your builds, and gives every build the clean environment > > it deserves >:-) > > If you want to closely replicate that koji will do, then no disagreement > that use of mock is the right tool (or just a koji scratch-build). That > just isn't a requirement much of the time though. > > For adhoc development and debugging of RPM spec changes/updates, mock > gets in the way and slows things down. I could easily do 10-20 "local" > runs while getting an complex change working, and then finish off with > just one or two mock build or koji scratch-build to validate it in a > pristine build root env at the end. > Exactly. I also use "fedpkg local" in my pet virtual machine. Pretty often. It's faster, more interactive, easier for debugging.
Does mock still need root (membership in mock group)? -- Petr
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