mock 0.8.9 for EPEL-5

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:22:53PM +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 11/20/2007 09:53 PM, Michael E Brown wrote:
> >All,
> >    Mock 0.8.9 is sitting in the upstream git repository. I have tested
> >this version on RHEL5, and it appears to work satisfactorily there. I
> >have fixed the last remaining issue that I have seen on RHEL.
> >
> >  
> [...]
> I've been using version 0.8.7 in Fedora 7 since released and after being 
> pointed to the new way of adding "-j 3" for parallel make, I am 
> extremely happy with it. The speed difference is noticeable.

Thanks. I put a *lot* of work into making it faster.

> What I would have liked to see and I think that is worth including is a 
> simple Readme with a couple of common examples on how to add options 
> (the new way) to .conf files.

Good point to bring up: one of the things I've tried to do with mock
0.8.x is to keep the '/etc/mock/defaults.cfg' file up-to-date with the
latest config options that are available. So, if you want to know any of
the configuration file options that can be set, look in there and you
should see examples of how to configure them. All the options are either
self-explanatory, or have blurbs.

Also, I have tried very hard to keep the manpage up-to-date as well,
documenting all the cmdline switches. So, one of the areas that mock
0.8.x has improved is the documentation.

> Bottom line, I am very much in favor of including the new version in 
> EPEL. I don't believe the few differences in config are worth forcing 
> 7yrs worth of maintenance of the old (and broken) version.

Thanks.

--
Michael