Released on - 2021-11-02

New Mock 2.13 features:

• A new option --additional-package is added. During package development, this option can be used with mock --rebuild mode to specify an additional set of build requirements (still, properly setting BuildRequires: is a preferred way to achieve this) [PR 776].

• A new option --debug-config-expanded is now available. It provides a very similar mock configuration output to the --debug-config option, except that the `` constructs the configuration are expanded [PR 765].

Mock 2.13 bugfixes:

• The external: dependencies are now properly installed into a proper build chroot, not into a bootstrap chroot [PR 771].

• The option parsing mechanism was migrated from the optparse library to argparse. This in particular shouldn’t be a user visible change, so please report changes in mock behavior if you observe any.

• The repositories generated locally by mock are not automatically signed. But since Mock did not specify the default gpgpcheck= option before, and some of our config files didn’t have gpgcheck=0 in the [main] section, DNF applied its own gpgcheck=1 default and it led to mock --chain build failures. Newly we set gpgcheck=0 by default by Mock and any GPG signed repository used in mock configuration needs to overwrite this explicitly [PR 782].

• When re-mounting, we newly don’t specify the source of the mountpoint as it is not needed in our case, and because the other (preferred) mount --target ... variant is more portable (behaves correctly with older util-linux implementations). [issue 715]

• The distro.linux_distribution() call is now deprecated, we use distro.id() instead. [PR 767]

• Fixed LVM error message caused by copy/paste error [PR 758].

The following contributors contributed to this release:

• Gustavo Costa
• Kamil Dudka
• Miroslav Suchý
• Sérgio M. Basto

Thank you!