Release Notes 1.4.9

Released on 2018-02-12.

Features:

• Stdout and stderr in build.log has been split. All stderr output lines are prefixed by BUILDSTDERR:
• There is a new config option opstimeout:

# Set timeout in seconds for common mock operations
# if 0 is set, then no time limit is used
# config_opts['opstimeout'] = 0

The default is 0, which means that Mock is waiting until command exit.

Bugfixes:

• Builds for EL5 are working again - EL5 is sensitive to order of params of adduser RHBZ#1535328
• Use correct builddep when bootstrap is used. Additionally, ccache is not installed into bootstrap chroot. RHBZ#1540813.
• User defined mounts are not mounted in bootstrap chroot.
• Detect if essential mounts are already mounted - previously, mock assumed that essential mounts (procfs, sysfs) are never mounted when mock starts up. That's not true, as multiple non-destructive mock processes are allowed (--shell, --install, etc.) to run concurrently. So when you use mock --shell and do a mock --install in parallel, it breaks your shell, because it unmounts its proc. This improves the situation by first asking whether the mounts aren't there already.
• fix quoting in sign_opts example in site-defaults.cfg RHBZ#1537797.
• Honor the "cwd" flag when nspawn is being used and "chrootPath" is not set.
• Do not produce a warning when we are using different PM for a bootstrap container.
• Default for config_opts['dnf_warning'] in site-defaults.cfg according to docs.

Additionally, there are several major changes in mock-core-config. This package is independent now, and a new version has been released two weeks ago and will be pushed to Fedora stable next week. I will repeat here changes in that package:

• Fedora 28 configs has been added.
• failovermethod=priority has been removed for repos which use DNF. This is the only method which DNF recognize and it cannot be changed.
• Set skip_if_unavailable=False for all repos. If a repository is unreachable, then build fails.

Following contributors contributed to this release:

• Barak Korren
• Michael Simacek
• Mikhail Campos Guadamuz
• mprahl
• Pavel Raiskup
• Todd Zullinger

Thank you.