On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 00:23 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:22 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> >2) What's the purpose of installing the spec file in the chroot? I'm
> >afraid I don't see the point. You'll never need it there. If you want
> >to see what the requires were that got installed, you could do a "rpm -
> >qRp buildsys-minimal.*.rpm"
> >
> Yeah, I had never created an RPM with an empty %files section, so I
> thought I needed something to go there. Silly me.
>
> Attached is a new specfile that creates three binary RPMs:
> buildsys-base, buildsys-minimal, and buildsys-build. This one doesn't
> include the specfile as payload and is somewhat cleaned up.
I'm just wondering... why does mock need three different sets of
packages? I can see mach wants that because it's more than just a "build
this package in a chroot for me" but in case of mock, wouldn't simply
one set of minimal build requirements be enough?
/me must be missing something :)
actually, you're not missing anything. It's a leftover that I had
forgotten and that we can, for all intents and purposes, abandon.
-sv