smock: Document how to use it without httpd

[fedora-mingw.git] / smock / README

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 by Dan Berrange and Richard W.M. Jones.
 License: GPLv2+
 
-Smock is a thin wrapper around mock to let you build up a whole
-set of dependant RPMs against an external distro.
+Smock is a thin wrapper around mock to let you build up a whole set of
+dependant RPMs against an external distro. Mock needs access to the
+repositories created by smock. This can happen either using httpd or direct
+file access.
 
  - Create directory $HOME/public_html/smock
 
- - Copy smock.httpd.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.d/smock.conf, changing the
+ - Optional: Copy smock.httpd.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.d/smock.conf, changing the
    /home/[USERNAME]/ to your user
 
- - Start or restart httpd
+ - Optional: Start or restart httpd
 
  - Insert smock.mock.extra to all your repos in /etc/mock/ changing the
-   USERNAME and distro name to match
+   USERNAME and distro name to match. If you do not want to use the http
+   server, use the direct file access baseurl instead of the http based one.
 
  - Disable SELinux (/usr/sbin/setenforce Permissive) and you may
    need to do 'chmod 0755 ~' to allow the web server to access your