Dne 07. 10. 20 v 11:47 Daniel Pocock napsal(a): > Is Mock only intended for building things or the chroot created by Mock > can be considered a long-lived chroot for daily use?
The original purpose is a build tool. But I see many people to do: mock -r fedora-33-x86_64 shell > With the move to Btrfs by default, is it possible that will be adapted? > Or can people manually manage their snapshots on their preferred > storage platform? There is no such plan. But contribution is welcome. >>> The "fastest to get started" way to solve getting these chroots is to pull >>> a container image and extract that. >> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki/Feature-container-for-bootstrap >> But you still want to setup timezones, make sure the packages are updated >> there, copy some files there... Mock does all >> of that. > Can you also clarify which container platform is being suggested? The mentioned feature use podman to retrieve the image and unpack the container to directory. > To put all this in context, imagine the user is on Fedora 32, they saw > the thread about Thunderbird 78.2.1 "Unpleasant Surprise" from Fedora 33 > and they want to run that in a chroot to see the impact on their profile > and plugins. They could create the chroot using any of the methods > discussed, yum --installroot, Mock, container. Maybe they want to > snapshot or fork their ~/.thunderbird profile but have access to their > regular ~/.gnupg setup. Just put: config_opts['exclude_from_homedir_cleanup'] = ['.thunderbird'] config_opts['plugin_conf']['bind_mount_enable'] = True config_opts['plugin_conf']['bind_mount_opts']['dirs'].append(('/home/MSUCHY/.thunderbird', '/builddir/.thunderbird' )) into ~/.config/mock.cfg and run mock -r fedora-32-x86_64 --isolation=simple shell And you should have your .thunderbird directory bind mounted. Diclaimer: I did not test it, and I would test it first on something less precious than my mails because Mock cleans up things at the end. The `simple` isolation to use simple chroot() otherwise systemd-nspawn is used and you will not be able to run xwindows applications. > > This can be really useful for the type of problem discussed in > Thunderbird but it can also be useful for people on non-x86 platforms > who regularly need to test new versions of specific applications. Did I mentioned that with Mock it is super easy to use different arches? https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki/Feature-forcearch -- Miroslav Suchy, RHCA Red Hat, Associate Manager ABRT/Copr, #brno, #fedora-buildsys _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
