mock and fc5/fe5 and comps pain

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:06 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> > Then mock has to grow how to parse a comps file.  And which format
> > should be preferred?  If we were to go that route, we're better off just
> > putting a list of packages in the mock config file, but that's just
> > painful from a maintenance perspective, IMHO
> 
> That's what mach does, and I never saw it as a problem.  There's no
> maintenance to be done - you give it a list of packages it needs to have
> installed for the "build" target and if the rpm dependencies are mapped
> ok it just works.  This is one of the first changes Seth made when
> forking to mock IIRC.
> 

B/c we didn't want the mock config to hold the list of packages in an
internal config file on every machine. If we did we wouldn't be able to
reasonably know that all the users of it were building on the same
chroots for their own test builds.

-sv