Mock creates chroots and builds packages in them. Its only task is to reliably populate a chroot and attempt to build a package in that chroot.

Fedora projects

Objectives

• Mock installation
• init
• chroot
• shell

Prerequiste

I assume that you have a Centos installation.

Installation

You can copy/paste this script and use it to configure automatically your server.

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How to use it?

First have a look to /etc/mock/. You will see all version you can use.
Important! You must login as ‘builder’ (or any user that belongs to ‘mock’ group).
Then type:

/usr/bin/mock -r my-version --init

Environment is here : /var/lib/mock/my-version

You can open a shell for the environment:

/usr/bin/mock -r my-version --shell

If you want to install package:

/usr/bin/mock -r my-version install yum

If you want to execute a command:

/usr/bin/mock -r my-version chroot "commands"