clime <clime(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 18:20, Robbie Harwood
<rharwood(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Robert-André Mauchin <zebob.m(a)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