Re: mock 0.8.9 for EPEL-5

[Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown dell com>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:53:08PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:49:01PM -0600, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:13:24PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:53:14PM -0600, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > > And the drawbacks:
> > > > 
> > > > -- small change in commandline behaviour: 'rebuild' command used to be
> > > > implied/option, is now required.
> > 
> > Actually, I just committed a patch to restore backwards-compatibility
> > for this. This should remove this part as a stumbling block.
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- method for adding .rpmmacros in the config file has changed over the
> > > > old version.
> > 
> > But this still remains. Not sure that a huge number of people use this
> > feature, though.
> 
> If it is really the case, then no real problem. But how can you know?

Because the config format changed in Fedora and all of 3 people emailed
me about it.

> 
> But why not have just fixed the nasty bug only and leave the old mock?

Mock in EPEL5 is 0.7.2. I have an *experimental* 0.7.7 patchset that
has been verified to *not* fix the problem. The change from 0.7.2 to
0.7.7+patch to fix this is, in itself, a pretty large jump with several
new features.

I'd rather not have to support the old branch, as it *truly* is a pain
in the neck to maintain due to the mock-helper/mock.py split.
--
Michael