/tags/yum/ Recent content in Yum on Saleem Ansari Hugo -- gohugo.io en (c) 2024 Saleem Ansari Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /2011/11/12/fast-alternative-to-yum-whatprovides/ Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /2011/11/12/fast-alternative-to-yum-whatprovides/ If yum whatprovides /path/to/file is slow for you, try a faster alternative: rpm -q --whatprovides /path/to/file For example: $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/clibrary speech-dispatcher-0.7.1-5.fc15.x86_64 rpm is quite fast and yum is too slow. Get back to basics! /2011/11/12/how-to-setup-mock-quickly/ Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /2011/11/12/how-to-setup-mock-quickly/ How to setup mock quickly? yum install mock The default configuration is already set for you: ls -l /etc/mock/default.cfg If not then this will do: sudo ln -s /etc/mock/fedora-15-x86_64.cfg /etc/mock/default.cfg As is clearly stated in mock(1) man page, you need to add the relevant user to mock group: sudo /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G mock $USER Thats all for the setup. Now lets use it: mock --init # this populates the build root with the required pacakges and repositories mock --rebuild hello-2.