MOCK-HERMETIC-REPO(1)

💖 MOCK-HERMETIC-REPO(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this little cutie (mock-hermetic-repo, that's her name, she's a manual page girly) is about to make your hermetic builds look effortless ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

mock-hermetic-repo — that's the whole name, no notes, she's iconic like that 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mock-hermetic-repo [-h] --lockfile LOCKFILE --output-repo OUTPUT_REPO
[--client-cert-for HOST CERT [KEY] [HOST CERT [KEY] ...]]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: this tool gets a repository all prepped and pretty for a mock --hermetic-build build 🌸

you hand her a Mock buildroot "lockfile", and she:

1. creates an output repo directory 📁
2. downloads and places all the necessary RPM files in there 📦
3. creates a local RPM repository right there (she runs createrepo) 🔧
4. dumps the previously used bootstrap image in there too, as a tarball 🗜️

now, about that lockfile: it's a buildroot_lock.json file, straight out of Mock's result directory 💅 it's a JSON file, and it gets generated by the --calculate-build-dependencies option slash buildroot_lock plugin — iykyk 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --lockfile LOCKFILE — pick which buildroot_lock.json filename lives on your system. typically she's chilling in Mock's result directory, and she shows up there once you've run the --calculate-build-dependencies mode 🗂️
• --output-repo OUTPUT_REPO — all the RPMs get downloaded into this directory, and then /bin/createrepo_c gets run right there to populate the RPM repo metadata ⭐
• --client-cert-for HOST CERT [KEY] [HOST CERT [KEY] ...] — registers a client certificate (plus an optional key) for one specific host. repeatable, so stack as many as you want 💖 usage:

--client-cert-for HOST CERT [KEY]

🫶 quick heads up, bestie: -h is in the synopsis up there, and that's all this page says about it — so no spoilers from me, no cap 🙈

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and that's the whole page!! it's giving "short but essential", it's giving "read me before you build" 🧚

this one was brought to you by mock-hermetic-repo, dated 2026-10-01 💜 take care of her, she takes care of your repo 🎀✨🌈