Mock going forward

[Clark Williams]

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Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-buildsys-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>> [mailto:fedora-buildsys-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Jeremy Katz
>> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:12 PM
>> To: Discussion of Fedora build system
>> Subject: Re: Mock going forward
>>
>> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 16:32 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
>>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>>> Kind of an aside...
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:38 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
>>>>> Well, because in 0.7 and greater, there is no mockhelper. The
>>>>> /usr/bin/mock program is a setuid root launcher that 
>> starts "python
>>>>> /usr/bin/mock.py"  with whatever arguments were passed in.
>>>> It might be worth moving /usr/bin/mock.py to be somewhere 
>> that's not in
>>>> the path... otherwise, this is bound to be somewhat confusing[1]
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy
>>>>
>>>> [1] To me, if to no one else :-)
>>> Ah, it's all about you, Jeremy :)
>> As often as I can arrange :-P
>>
>>> I had considered it but was more concerned with other things (like
>>> trying to clean up the BZ's for 0.6).
>>>
>>> Where would you suggest? /opt/mock?
>> Nah, just that /usr/bin/mock should probably execute
>> perhaps /usr/libexec/mock.py -- that way, you don't do 
>>   moc<tab><tab>
>> and get hits for both mock and mock.py and become confused as to which
>> you're actually supposed to use
> 
> /opt/ is reserved for sysadmin installation of add-on packages and iirc
> is normally empty on a clean install. /usr/libexec/mock/mock.py sounds
> like a good choice. The other option is to do similar to how yum does
> it: /usr/share/mock-cli/mock.py.
> --
> Michael

I think I like /usr/libexec/mock.py.

Will that be acceptable to everyone?

Clark
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