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

2011-02-05 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 15:49 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > EPEL has a *nasty* habit of upgrading packages and not leaving the old > one behind for reversion or regression testing. .. All the more reason to introduce a 'local' repository where packages can accumulate and gracefully grow ol

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

2011-02-05 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:17 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 17:44 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> I just found a nasty bug. Hold off on using that. > > Share it a bz #? > > > John EPEL has a *nasty* habit of upgrading packages and not leaving the old one behind for reversion or re

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

2011-02-05 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 17:44 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I just found a nasty bug. Hold off on using that. Share it a bz #? John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2011-02-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:39 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:13 +, 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 >> > b

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

2011-02-04 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:13 +, 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 ver

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

2011-02-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
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

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

2011-02-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
The speedups in building RPM's with "mock" from the EPEL packages for RHEL 6 are *profound*, especially if your environment is like mine and you have thousands of user id's. The issue seems to be the handling of "/var/log/lastlog" and similar files, which are otherwise quite large and take signific