Released on - 2020-09-15.

Mock 2.6 new features:

• The default --rebuild mode now supports -a|--addrepo option, as well as the --chain did before, rhbz#1857918.

• The default --rebuild mode now also accepts URLs pointing at source RPMs. In previous versions mock only worked with local source RPMs. The auto-downloading feature was previously available only in the --chain mode.

Mock 2.6 bugfixes:

• The configuration files inside buildroot are pre-configured (or re-configured) by mock even if they are pre-installed by packages as symbolic links, rhbz#1878924.

• Mock previously swallowed the ‘rpm -i’ error output when installing the source RPM into chroot and failed. Newly the error output is printed to stderr.

• Each particular build failure reason in --chain build is now properly dumped to stderr.

• The --chain mode now fails right after the first build failure, as it was previously documented in the manual page. To follow to the other package builds, one has to specify --continue.

• Mock creates /etc/localtime as a symlink even with isolation=simple (per fedora discussion).

• When systemd-nspawn supports the --resolv-conf=, mock newly always runs it with --resolv-conf=off. This is done to revert back the previous expected name resolution behavior inside mock chroot (the new default –resolv-conf=auto has broken it).

The following contributors contributed to this release:

• Miroslav Suchý

Thank you.