Bug 1023910

Summary:	RFE: support for running multiple builds at same time
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marcin Juszkiewicz <mjuszkie>
Component:	mock	Assignee:	Clark Williams <williams>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dan, massi.ergosum, mebrown, msuchy, williams
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Description Marcin Juszkiewicz 2013-10-28 10:13:26 UTC

Description of problem:

I do lot of builds with mock. If machine is powerful enough I would like to run multiple builds (as some take hours while other take just minutes).

Actual results:

Mock runs in /var/lib/mock/root/ which limits myself to just one copy at time. If I want another one I have to tweak configuration to create second rootfs from scratch. And do it for each package and clean after.

Expected results:

Multiple copies of mock run without interfering each other (they may wait during yum package updates).

Additional info:

I came from Debian and used pbuilder a lot. There you have tarball with basic chroot which is unpacked into /var/cache/pbuilder/build/RANDOMNAME/ and then populated with build dependencies and removed after build.

Comment 1 Dan Horák 2013-10-28 11:15:57 UTC

I think you may need --uniqueext=text option for mock, it adds a suffix to the buildroot toplevel directory making it unique without changing any config.

Comment 2 Miroslav Suchý 2013-10-29 23:20:04 UTC

Are you looking for mockchain?

 man mockchain

Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2014-04-02 13:49:21 UTC

Closing per #1 and #2. There is nothing to do.