Dist tag question

[Moray Henderson]

> From: Moray Henderson [mailto:Moray.Henderson at ict-software.org]
> Sent: 25 April 2012 15:27
> I've got Koji to build rpms - but the task is still failing with the
> message
> 
>     GenericError: Unable to complete build: release mismatch (build: 2,
> rpm: 2.el6)
> 
> The different build steps are giving different results.  My .spec file
> contains
> 
>   Release: %{release}%{?dist}
> 
> and my build and srpm-build groups both contain redhat-release, which
> resolves to centos-release-6-2.el6.centos.7.x86_64 and contains
> /etc/rpm/macros.dist to set "%dist .el6".
> 
> However buildSRPMFromSCM results in
> 
>   Building target platforms: x86_64
>   Building for target x86_64
>   Wrote: /builddir/build/SRPMS/mypackage-1.0-2.src.rpm
> 
> while buildArch also builds a srpm before the binary rpm:
> 
>   Building target platforms: noarch
>   Building for target noarch
>   Wrote: /builddir/build/SRPMS/mypackage-1.0-2.el6.src.rpm
> 
>   Building target platforms: noarch
>   Building for target noarch
>   ...
>   Wrote: /builddir/build/RPMS/slspkg-1.0-2.el6.noarch.rpm
> 
> My Koji hub lists the build as "mypackage-1.0-2".  If I get
> buildSRPMFromSCM to use the dist macro, will the Koji hub pick up the
> right name?  How do I get buildSRPMFromSCM to do that?

(There was a typo in the above: slspkg should read mypackage.  Sorry.)

Never mind - got it.  Yum needs the correct package name, it doesn't match
on what the package provides.

Still getting to grips with the Koji and Koji hub interfaces.  I found the
root.log of the task and that gave me the clue:

  DEBUG util.py:257:  Installing:
  DEBUG util.py:257:   bash                   x86_64  4.1.2-8.el6.centos
build  902 k
  DEBUG util.py:257:   curl                   x86_64  7.19.7-26.el6_2.4
build  192 k
  DEBUG util.py:257:   make                   x86_64  1:3.81-19.el6
build  389 k
  DEBUG util.py:257:   redhat-rpm-config      noarch  9.0.3-34.el6
build   57 k
  DEBUG util.py:257:   rpm-build              x86_64  4.8.0-19.el6_2.1
build  124 k
  DEBUG util.py:257:   shadow-utils           x86_64  2:4.1.4.2-13.el6
build  896 k

Some packages from srpm-build were missing from the install, because they
are in the repository under different names.  They got pulled in to the
buildArch buildroot as dependencies.  


Moray.
"To err is human; to purr, feline."