pass "%global" definitions to mock?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 04/10/2016 10:11 AM, Matthias Leopold wrote:
> hi,
>
> i want to rebuild IUS PHP SRPMs with mock. in the spec file is a
> "%global php_bootstrap   0" definition. how can i pass a different value
> for "php_bootstrap" to the mock build process? i tried the following:
>
> mock --rebuild --define="php_bootstrap 1" php56u-5.6.20-1.ius.el7.src.rpm
>
> mock --rebuild --define="global php_bootstrap 1"
> php56u-5.6.20-1.ius.el7.src.rpm
>
> mock --rebuild php56u-5.6.20-1.ius.el7.src.rpm -r ./test.cfg
> test.cfg contains "config_opts['macros']['php_bootstrap'] = "1""
>
> mock --rebuild php56u-5.6.20-1.ius.el7.src.rpm --macro-file=my-macro.txt
> my-macro.txt contains "%global php_bootstrap   1"
>
> none of these worked

I don't believe you can.  You must edit the spec file.  An alternative 
method would be to do something like

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Bootstrapping

which I believe allows you to pass "--with bootstrap"


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