Description of problem: In order to chain build packages you currently need to do something like: mock --init mock --install <dependencies> mock --noclean <SRPM> Expected results: An option such as "--temprepo Creates a temporary repository for build dependencies." which would run createrepo in the specified directory and add it as a repository used to satisfy build dependencies would make this much easier and allow building packages more or less one step instead of the 3 above. Not to mention if you forget to add --no-clean you have to start all over.
It looks like mockchain *ALMOST* fills this need but I'm guessing the -a option want's a true url, not a path: File "/bin/mockchain", line 352, in <module> main(sys.argv) File "/bin/mockchain", line 251, in main res, msg = add_local_repo(my_mock_config, my_mock_config, baseurl) File "/bin/mockchain", line 105, in add_local_repo repoid=baseurl.split('//')[1].replace('/','_') IndexError: list index out of range I tried turning it into a url "file://..." and although mockchain didn't complain, it didn't pull in the newer packages and instead used the regular repo packages. Also, mockchain seems to lack a --resultdir option...
If you pass several src.rpm to mockchain then mockchain automaticaly create local repo with those packages which were already built. No need to specify -a. Also if you are not sure in which order it should be build, you can use 'mockchain --recurse' which will try to build failed packages again, if some other packages will succeed.