Hello all,
Over the last several months, I've been working in Mageia on enabling
the use of DNF for managing software in the distribution[0]. One of
the consequences of this is that we're now able to have packages built
using Mock. Indeed, it was intended as part of the development to
enable building with Mock, and in the past, I talked to Miroslav Suchý
about also getting Mageia supported as a target in Copr. Of course, he
mentioned a prerequisite for this is having Mock support.
Today, I'm pleased to provide a patch to do just that. The attached
patch adds the initial build target configs for Mageia Cauldron on
32-bit and 64-bit x86.
I say initial because we do intend to have metalinks going very soon,
and I would like to change the configuration files to use metalinks
instead of a direct URL. However, I do not know how we need to set up
metalinks for DNF to use them. In addition, we would also like to
support the automatic redirection to a mirror when using http URLs (as
download.fp.o does) for our legacy package manager, urpmi (which will
remain the primary for Mageia 6 for various reasons). If there's
anyone who could help us out on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
In any case, the configs are available as the attached patch, pointing
to a specific mirror (
mirrors.kernel.org) for now.
[0]:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:Add_DNF_as_Alternate_Repository_Manager
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