Released on - 2021-06-09

Mock 2.11 features:

• You can use --cwd together with --shell now. [PR 732]

• You can use mock --install 'external:pypi:hwdata' now. [PR 733]

• Mock now defines macro %{_platform_multiplier} which is set to 1 by default. However, when forcearch is used, then it is set to 10. [PR 730]

  This can be used to tune timeouts in e.g., %check and reflects that emulated platforms can take longer to finish task. Suggested use case can be:

   %{!?_platform_multiplier:%global _platform_multiplier 1}
   timeout $(( 60*%_platform_multiplier )) the-long-running-task
  

  This will timeout after 60 seconds but on emulated platforms after 600 seconds.

  If you have slow builder for some architecture, you can put in your config

  config_opts['macros']['%_platform_multiplier'] = 5
  

  to tune up this macro.

Mock 2.11 bugfixes:

• Plug-in compress_logs now compresses log files even in case of DNF repository failures [PR 736].

• Broken “usage” section in mock --help output was fixed [issue 738].

Mock-core-configs v34.4:

• centos-stream-8 repositories use mirrorlist now. And have additional repositories which are presented in default centos-stream-8 installation [PR 729]

The following contributors contributed to this release:

• Neal Gompa
• Miroslav Suchý

Thank you!