Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
The official release is built quite differently from the nightly RPMs. The release is built using the mock package so that the build environment is guaranteed clean. This would be the correct way to build nightly packages, but the nights are too short to do this in addition to all the other building and testing we already do. But perhaps we should look into this path anyway.
Mock has an option that lets you setup a cache, and then maintain it for a fixed number of days, so perhaps one route would be / could to setup a cache per distro/release/arch and let it stay static for a few days, and run the builds inside there. Also, I am looking to build some packages for CentOS4 and CentOS5, if there are any spec changes will push them upstream to you guys. - KB