Jean-Paul Chaput wrote on 05/26/2011 12:11 PM:
Hi,
Please reply to the list.
Well, I'm not familiar with the Koji tool, but from what I guess
from it's documentation it's aimed to people that do build a whole
distribution. With nice cooperating features and reporting.
Koki is a higher-level tool that uses mock. It is used to build Fedora
and I think SL. I'm still trying to get familiar with it.
The goal of my tool is somewhat different (and simpler). It is to
automate the porting of packages from another distribution to the one
I'm using (say import from Fedora Core 14 to SL6).
It works with the following steps:
1. - Pull the desired (and latest) SRPMS from the foreign source
repository (ex: Fedora Core 14)
2. - Analyse dependencies. If some are missing, pull/rebuild them
using 1.
3. - Build the package.
4. - Add the package to a local repository (and rebuild it
automatically).
The you can deploy the new package.
I hope I haven't reinvented the weel :-)
Parts of that certainly sound a lot like mock but others seem to go
beyond it, with the apparently iterative capability, and adding to a
repo; which koji does.
I've also a tool to perform what I call "strict-synchronisation".
Yum is not able to remove packages once they are installed, it can
only upgrade or downgrade them. Removing, by package or group is an
explicit operation. I wanted all the computers of my networks to
stick exactly on a set of packages (one set for servers, one set for
desktop and so on). So I'm now able to maintain exactly the same
set of packages on every computer. It's also useful if you want to
remove one on every machine.
Sounds interesting.
Phil
