Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] Do we need Fedora Core 9 binary rpms?

[Tom D. <td...@ro...>]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Vadim Kurland ✎ wrote:

>
> On Feb 3, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Tom Diehl wrote:
>
>> 
>> I agree koji is way over kill. Mock however, is simple. Once you install it 
>> and
>> do the initial configuration, you can run something like
>> "mock -r epel-5-i386 /home/mock/SRPMS/hobbit-4.2.0-1.el5.1.mtd.src.rpm" and 
>> if
>> all goes well you get the rpms and srpms in a short period of time.
>> 
>> Mock uses yum to pull in all of the required packages for doing the build. 
>> So
>> you have to have the rpms available for it to pull in. Maybe that makes 
>> sense
>> for your use case and maybe it does not. Obviously only you know.
>> 
>
> mock works fine if I build just one libfwbuilder rpm. However when I try to 
> build fwbuilder rpm, which requires libfwbuilder rpm, mock can't do it 
> because of the unsatisfied dependency. Do you know any way to work around 
> this ?

What I do is make a local yum repo by putting the rpms somewhere where mock can
find them and running "createrepo path_to_the_repo".

You need to tell mock where they are by adding a yum configuration stanza to
/etc/mock/whatever_the_config_file_is_called. That way yum can just pull the
required deps in. The config file is pretty simple but if you have questions
feel free to ask. Keep in mind that mock is written in python so a lot of the
time usage of whitespace makes the difference between a program running and
failing.

I have thought about putting a wrapper around mock so that it would move the
newly built rpms to the correct place and then rebuild the repodata. The way
less human intervention is required. I just need the time to do it. I do not
think it would be hard.

FYI, the EPEL people have mock config files for building RHEL/Centos on mock.
I do not remember the url for them but if you want them and cannot find them
let me know and I will see if I can remember where I got them.

Also, I just loaded the FC10 rpms onto my laptop. They loaded without error
and fwbuilder starts up and loads the data file. So far that is all of the
testing I have done. Ver is 754 if it matters. I need to do some modifications
to that firewall later today. I will let you know how it goes.

Regards,

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