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I’ve been working through the process<\/a> of getting a libcmpiutil<\/a> package built for Fedora 9.\u00a0 I’ve never packaged something for a distro before, so some of the things are a bit new to me.\u00a0 Luckily, Daniel Veillard did a good chunk of the up-front work of writing the spec files; only minor tweakage was needed.<\/p>\n

I’ve been using Fedora 8 for a development machine, because the Pegasus package is fine for what we need (aside from the schema<\/a> changes).\u00a0 However, during the review process, an issue came up which was no doubt related to a newer compiler version in the -development head of Fedora (what will become Fedora 9).\u00a0 I, of course, did not see these issues on my Fedora 8 machine, and needed a way to test my fixes before posting for review again.<\/p>\n

I considered installing a Fedora 8 VM, enabling the fedora-development repository and upgrading everything.\u00a0 However, our lab was being really slow today, and accessing my KVM-capable machines was just not going to happen.\u00a0 Knowing that Mock is supposed to help this sort of thing, I decided to give it a shot.<\/p>\n

After setting up a build user (per the MockTricks<\/a> page), I can do this:<\/p>\n

% sudo su – build
\n% mock -r fedora-devel-x86_64 rebuild libcmpiutil-0.1-4.src.rpm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not only do I get a Fedora 9 build environment, but I get my build dependencies checked and a .fc9 SRPM out of the whole deal!\u00a0 It’s really cool to be able to get an automated build environment without needing to hose a machine with a test installation.\u00a0 You can even test 32-bit builds on a 64-bit machine with minimal effort.\u00a0 Finally, if you need to do something other than build an SRPM in the sandbox, you can get a chroot to any of the environments you need like this:<\/p>\n

[build@guaranine ~]$ mock -r fedora-devel-x86_64 shell
\nINFO: mock.py version 0.8.7 starting…
\nState Changed: init plugins
\nState Changed: start
\nState Changed: lock buildroot
\nState Changed: clean
\nState Changed: init
\nState Changed: lock buildroot
\nState Changed: enabled yum cache, cleaning yum metadata
\nState Changed: enabling root cache
\nState Changed: unpacking cache
\nmock-chroot> cat \/etc\/fedora-release
\nFedora release 8.90 (Rawhide)
\nmock-chroot><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The one thing I haven’t figured out how to do yet is test build a dependent set of RPMs (such as libcmpiutil and libvirt-cim), but I feel there must be a way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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