On 8/16/06, Clark Williams williams@redhat.com wrote:
Keeping in line with our razor-blade focus for mock ("we just build packages in chroots"), I actually don't think there's much more to do for 1.0. Once we are comfortable with the functional and security aspects of the 0.7 mock, I'd call it cooked. Assuming of course no one comes up with a killer feature that is :).
A while ago and on a different list, tibbs proposed adding one last bit to the buildcycle:
* installing rpmlint into the buildroot * installing the built packages into the buildroot * running rpmlint against the installed packages and providing the rpmlint reports in results/
The idea here is to seamlessly give rpmlint reports on installed packages (there's a difference than on binaries, apparently) without having the builder/reviewer needlessly clutter up their host. Mock wouldn't have anything to do with the results once rpmlint is run; they'd just be another bit of information for the reviewers/packagers to use.
My memory is a bit foggy on what happened to this, but is this something we could think about doing for mock, either 0.7 or 1.0? IMHO, something like this would be a great time saver, as it's something that's fairly routine.
-Chris