On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 at 03:02, Luya Tshimbalanga <l...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 2020-12-18 11:13 a.m., Robbie Harwood wrote:
> > clime <cl...@fedoraproject.org> writes:
> >
> >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 18:20, Robbie Harwood <rharw...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> Robert-André Mauchin <zebo...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> On 12/18/20 3:52 PM, James Szinger wrote:
> >>>>> No.  One can also download the sources from upstream using spectool or
> >>>>> similar, even wget or curl.  My local work flow is typically get or
> >>>>> create spec file and patches, spectool -g, rpmbuild -bs, mock.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Unrelated to the topic at hand, but why do people still use rpmbuild -bs
> >>>> instead of using a fedpkg mockbuild? You get a clean environment to
> >>>> build and you don't have to install tons of devel packages on your 
> >>>> system.
> >>> For me it's speed.  Yes, mock gives a clean environment, but I'd rather
> >>> not use it if I don't have to: the tradeoff is I don't have to *wait*
> >>> for the mock to go get the tons of devel packages (and generally for
> >>> repo/dnf slowness) - they're already installed on my system.
> >> But you have fedpkg installed, right? I think fedpkg srpm should do a
> >> good job as well.
> > Probably, but that wasn't the question - the question was about
> > mockbuild.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Robbie
> Mockbuild stores packages in /var/lib/mock and will skip those already
> downloaded. You can configure dnf (slowness is a illusion because the
> package manager does many task as verify the security and possible
> update packages) to only use cache when needed at the cost of getting
> outdated packages. Make sure to select the fastest mirror for effectiveness

Well, I also feel dnf is very slow, especially on my current
connection now, it takes about 10 minutes to spawn a new container and
install a package. It should be much faster once it doesn't download
filelists.xml unless needed.

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>
> Luya Tshimbalanga
> Fedora Design Team
> Fedora Design Suite maintainer
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