So here is the list of things that have been requested lately and I'll be working on a few of these over the next few weeks. If anybody has any input, I'd take it. As I start on each, I'll most likely email the mailing list with the outline of what I'm doing.
If anybody has existing patches for these (against current mock git), all the better... :) 1) more reliable mount/umount several people have pointed out instances where mock exits leaving mounts behind (specifically /dev), and the next invokation of mock ends up 'rm -rf' the host machine's /dev. Bad.... 2) caching yum downloads several people have commented that the autocache stuff is great for speeding up builds, others say that it can sometimes be bad for reproducability, and that simply saving the yum cache dir would be better. 3) ccache integration This is a new one that I havent seen before, but should significantly speed up builds for people who often do rebuild-the-entire-distribution-type things. I'm told by some that this is bad for reproducability, but good for speeding up builds when you are just sanity checking or when that small reproducability hit doesnt matter. I've also seen lots of empirical data that ccache should not cause any problems. This will be have to be specifically enabled through a commandline or config file option, so those who care can turn it on/off. 4) distcc integration Pretty much the same case as ccache. Has more things that need thought than the ccache case, above, though. -- Michael -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list
