ANNOUNCE: Smock (simpler mock) - a mock wrapper for chain building

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:29:09 +0000
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:17:05PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:02:57PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > > Thanks a lot, this looks very helpful. To make it even more
> > > simplier, you can also use "file:///" urls in the mock config file
> > > for repositories.  Then do not need a webserver.
> > 
> > Does this work?  I'll take your word for it -- it would definitely
> > be simpler if we didn't need to run a web server :-)
> 
> It didn't work when I tried it originally. Perhaps its needs a newer
> mock than I had originally, or maybe I just did it wrong. Still worth
> trying again if it is expected to actually work...

I've been using it like this for *years* with loopback-mounted ISO
images for a low-cost source for the base repo. It definitely works.

Paul.