seth vidal wrote:
>You still have yum parsing the comps, but it only parses one (and
that
>one is easier to control). Since the groups repo is so directly tied to
>mock, it seems reasonable to expect that buildgroups.xml should match
>your mock/yum setup.
yes - but now you have to maintain 2 of these files.
not if new yum could handle old comps.
wrt to rebuilding the package. What if I could give you a script
that
just took a spec file and spat out the noarch.rpm? Would that make your
life easier and less irritated by the package-full-of-deps, thing?
The rebuilding isn't that big a deal, more of an annoyance. My main
worry is the fake packages sitting in the repos. Using fake packages
like this has always seemed like a hack to me. Sometimes it is
necessary, but I hate to see it used as a central mechanism in the build
system.
In my case the fake packages introduce a problem in bookkeeping. I can
work around it, of course, but I'd rather avoid the mess.
Anyway, how about a compromise? See attached patch.