GSoC 2014 - week 7

Hi again, I'm sorry I didn't post last week, because I've been on a vacation.
Here's what I've done this week:

Passing additional options to underlying tools
rpmbuild has an option --short-circuit that skips stages of build preceding the specified one. It doesn't build a complete RPM package, but it's very handy for debugging builds that fail, especially in the install section. But this option is not accessible from within mock and I already mentioned in my proposal that I want to make it available. The option is also called --short-circuit and it accepts an argument - either build, install, or binary, representing the build phase that will be the first while the preceding phases would be skipped.
Example invocation:
$ mock rnv-1.7.11-6.fc21.src.rpm --short-circuit install

For Yum or DNF some of the options that are often used when user invokes the package manager directly also weren't available in mock. --enablerepo and --disablerepo are very common ones and now they are also supported by mock - they're directly passed to the underlying package manager.
Example invocation:
$ mock --install xmvn maven-local --enablerepo jenkins-xmvn --enablerepo jenkins-javapackages
The repos of course have to be present in the yum.conf in mock config.

Python 3 support
I started working on porting mock to Python 3. This doesn't mean that mock will run on Python 3 only, I'm trying to preserve compatibility with Python 2.6 without the need to have two version of mock for each. I changed the trace_decorator to use regular Python decorators instead of peak.utils.decorate and dropped dependency on the decoratortools package. There are slight changes in traceLog's output, that I don't consider important, but if someone did, it could be solved by using python-decorator package, which is available for both versions. There are some features that are still untested, but the regularly used functionality is already working. Rebuilding RPMs, SRPMs, working in shell, manipulating packages is tested. The plugins, that are enabled by default (yum-cache, root-cache, ccache, selinux) also work. What doesn't work is the LVM plugin, because it uses lvm2-python-libs, which doesn't have a Python 3 version yet. Same applies to mockchain, which uses urlgrabber. To try mock with Python 3, either change your system default Python implementation or manually hardcode python3 as the interpreter to the shebang in /usr/sbin/xmock.