diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 114c61c56c54f7e656af5c762170b34af23c62b6..a9dc204ba11dd350cfce30945a39c35475a356b3 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
   # an identifier, the second is the path on the guest to mount the
   # folder, and the third is the path on the host to the actual folder.
   # config.vm.share_folder "v-data", "/vagrant_data", "../data"
+  config.vm.share_folder "rpmbuild", "/var/lib/mockbuild/rpmbuild", "rpmbuild"
 
   # Enable provisioning with Puppet stand alone.  Puppet manifests
   # are contained in a directory path relative to this Vagrantfile.
diff --git a/puppet/manifests/rpmbuild.pp b/puppet/manifests/rpmbuild.pp
index 4b3d8fbb8c18ae29becf937b520ed82a019b27d8..32ab7f7b3712ed1295ff5a240193fda53d25f787 100644
--- a/puppet/manifests/rpmbuild.pp
+++ b/puppet/manifests/rpmbuild.pp
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 # include mockbuild module from
 # https://github.com/jeffmccune/jeffmccune-mockbuild
 include mockbuild
+include eox-release
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diff --git a/puppet/modules/eox-release/manifests/init.pp b/puppet/modules/eox-release/manifests/init.pp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b803f91d9c4200fbc6799227608d8f1727157dcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/puppet/modules/eox-release/manifests/init.pp
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class eox-release {
+	# build dependencies for the eox-release rpm: none ;)
+}
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