On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 16:56 -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:38 -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > >> Well, because in 0.7 and greater, there is no mockhelper. The > >> /usr/bin/mock program is a setuid root launcher that starts "python > >> /usr/bin/mock.py" with whatever arguments were passed in. > > > > Ok, I haven't played with the 0.7, but surely you've made some space > > available to do commands like this? We depend heavily on being able to > > install a package or package list in the buildroot then run some > > commands in the buildroot. Its an integral part of our tree composition > > tools. > > > > The 'chroot' command for running commands in the build root is still > there, so you can run whatever you need in the chroot. What remains is > to make it easy to install arbitrary rpms into the chroot. I think the > way to do this is to have an 'install' command that accepts binary rpms > (i.e. doesn't involve yum repositories) and runs the host rpm to put the > contents into the build root. > > Hmmm. Thinking about this a bit more makes me wonder if we need to be > able to install rpm's *using* yum, since yum brings with it the ability > to resolve dependencies. I say this because the RPM we just generated > with mock might have Requires: that aren't in the build chroot and would > need to be there for installing the the rpm prior to running rpmlint. I > hate to add one command to install a local rpm and another to install > using yum. A quick scan of the yum man page makes me think that it might > work to just invoke 'yum install <path to rpm>'. > > Can anyone confirm/deny that invoking yum with a path to an rpm will > work (I'm not in a position to do so at the moment).
yes, it works. You might want to check where it expects to find the rpm when using an installroot ie: does it find it in /path/to/rpm or installroot/path/to/rpm. I don't remember which at this moment. -sv -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list Fedora-buildsys-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list
