Call for help: mock configs for RPM Fusion

[Dan Horák]

Thorsten Leemhuis píše v Út 02. 09. 2008 v 20:53 +0200:
> On 02.09.2008 20:38, Dan Horák wrote:
> > Thorsten Leemhuis píše v Út 02. 09. 2008 v 19:48 +0200:
> >> More and more people asked for mock configs files that they can use for 
> >> test-building RPM Fusion packages. I don't have such files, but I 
> >> uploaded the mock config files used on the builders to
> >>
> >> http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedorarpms/MISC.rfu/mock/
> >>
> >> DON'T USE THEM! They need modifications before they are ready for 
> >> normaly use!
> >>
> >> I'd thus appreciate it if someone with a few spare cycles could take 
> >> them and update them (see below)(¹); we after that should create 
> >> rpmfusion-mockcfgs-{non,}free packages(²); after reviewing those we can 
> >> put them in our repos.
> > 
> > I am not sure that creating a package with mock config is necessary,
> 
> It IMHO is not necessary, but makes things a whole lot easier for 
> everyone -- just like putting the repo files for yum into a foo-release 
> package ;-)
> 
> > a
> > page on the Wiki with the relevant sections for adding into users' mock
> > configs could be sufficient.
> 
> I would never suggest that to people -- or -- that way lie dragons: 
> quickly someone will test-build a package for review in Fedora and not 
> notice that it requires something from RPM Fusion as dep. Rpmnewfile 
> that uers need to manually merge is another bad side-affect.
> 

Yes, creating whole new configs will be safer. And let's create
rpmfusion-mockconfig package. There should be no difference between
applying local changes into a new config and adding new repo into a copy
of current config. Only my workflow will be a bit different ;-)


		Dan