> > Does mock / Koji use rpmbuild as its base?
>
> Koju uses mock to create a minimal dependency chroot. Inside that
> minimal dependency chroot, it uses rpmbuild to rebuild the src.rpm. or from
> at Makefile in a SCM (git, svn or git) just to clarify :) :)
> However, if you are asking if koji is more clever about the build order
> in the sense that it will figure out the dependency tree and build the
> dependees before dependers, no, it won't. Yea and no. No In that sense that
> it will just build a package as mock/rpmbuild.Yes in that sense that it has a
> feature - "chainbuild". I have not tried it yet. but as I read it, you can
> define a build task as a chain of builds. In this way you can build
> dependencies for a package before you (in the end of the chain) build the
> package. Very neat for build bootstrapping an OS.
> 1) I don't think there is any benefit in duplicating their work now that
> they have finally caught up with us after 5 years. That just seems like
> a huge waste of time where it isn't necessary, and they are at least
> better funded (IIRC some of their maintainers are on the PNAELV payroll,
> and get paid for it, rather than doing it only in their spare time like
> we do here). Agreed. Let the CentOS guys maintain the 64-bit arm RHEL-based
> OS and RSEL focus on 32-bit arm OS. I assume there will still be a need for
> 32 bit arm support for a long time.
> We could also include fixes that CentOS guys haven't gotten around to
> yet, e.g. the recent gnome fix that Jacco put together recently.
+1 BR,Bjarne
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