On Nov 28, 2007 5:46 AM, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Andrew Parker wrote: > > When I build an RPM with mock, it gets the standard Fedora dist tag > > (.fc8). If I want to change it to use my own dist tag, how can I do > > that? Ordinarily I'd do rpmbuild --define 'dist ????' but that's > > not appropriate with mock. > > With mock 0.8, you'd use something like this: > > config_opts['macros']['%dist'] = "mydist8" > > in either /etc/mock/defaults.cfg or one of the individual chroot > config files. BINGO! perfect, thanks. i'd tried changing config_opts, but i was floundering as i didn't know what was needed (or if it worked, for that matter).