[Yum-devel] mock group

[Alan Milligan]

> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 03:53 +1100, Alan Milligan wrote:

> 
> all the groups stuff does is use a yum group to specify the contents of
> the chroot at different stages. It's just for consistency and
> ease-of-editing.
> 
> And, to be clear, that mechanism is probably going away.

Bummer!!  After posting this I realised what was happening and
implemented the yum groups API.  This is dynamically created based upon
the groups tags in the RPMs on the channel.  I guess I shouldn't have
been surprised, but the correlation between this and those in Fedora's
comps.xml is minimal ...

> 
> I need to spend some time dumping out the groups stuff from mock - we'll
> be doing away with it for a package which manages that list of packages
> needed.

That would be a good idea.  This minimal RPM set should prove to be
small and static and could be managed via Requires in the mock spec -
maybe as a sub-package.  All that would be necessary would be to install
this mock subpackage in the chroot.


> 
> it simplifies a number of things, unfortunately.

Sure.  BTW, I noticed that the one on fedora.org does not have rpm-build
in it's minimal package list - bit of a showstopper that ;)

Alan