I was thinking about a couple enhancements to mock, and one of the things that came up was an 'offline' mode for mock, ie. the ability to build packages when disconnected from the internet.
I believe that everything is now in place in mock 0.8.x to allow this. Mock now caches /var/cache/yum. As long as you already have downloaded the correct BuildRequires for your package, there is no compelling reason to hit the network if the user wants to do an offline build. This would require an enhancement to yum. I was thinking it could possibly be a plugin, but I wanted to get feedback on how to implement it. Basically, the idea is to just assume that the contents of /var/cache/yum are up-to-date and use them. If there is anything missing that needs to be downloaded from the internet, then it should basically error out. I was thinking an "--offline" cmdline parameter. Any pointers, hints, or other ideas would be most welcome. Thanks, Michael Brown _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
