First off, I apologize for the lengthy message, but I hope to eventually contribute to this project via code and/or docs.  (I've already updated the Server Setup wiki page where I felt knowledgeable enough.)

I'm loosely following the wiki page[1] for this process but may have myself confused about what some steps do and what overall is required.  I want a Koji instance for building internally developed packages.  I would rarely, if ever, want to rebuild a package already provided in Fedora.  I've got lots of experience using rpmbuild and recently a little with mock, but am trying for a full fledged setup with Koji now to improve my workflow.  For now, I am focusing on builds for F19 only, but will eventually add others to basically follow Fedora's EoL schedule.

Thus far, I have:

1. A basic setup working and can now login thanks to Mike's excellent help.
2. A "f19" tag and a child "f19-build" tag for arches i386 and x86_64.
3. Successfully imported the SRPMs for my locally developed packages only.  I didn't import any binary RPMs as I wanted to see that Koji could do that as a test.  I also didn't import anything of the Fedora-provided packages since I'm not interested in building those.
4. A "f19" build target.
5. A build group named "build" associated with my "f19-build" tag.

I've tried doing a build of one of my SRPMs that I had imported and keep meeting failure.  Examination of the root.log revealed only a few things, but none that sounded to worrisome:

DEBUG util.py:266:  There is no installed groups file.
DEBUG util.py:266:  Warning: Group build does not have any packages to install.

When I got to the mock_output.log however, I saw this which I'm guessing is the reason for failure:

ERROR: Could not find useradd in chroot, maybe the install failed?

Seeing this I figured it was due to skipping the step for populating the "build" group with packages to be installed in the minimal buildroot.  I skipped this because the instructions fail for me since I my FAS account isn't set up sufficiently to let me to auth against the real Fedora Koji instance, i.e., I don't have a signed user cert.  Knowing that my current mock setup can manage this, I dug into its config and stumbled upon the "buildsys-build" package name and thus came up with:

$ yum group info buildsys-build
Loaded plugins: langpacks
There is no installed groups file.
Maybe run: yum groups mark convert

Group: Buildsystem building group
 Group-Id: buildsys-build
 Mandatory Packages:
    bash
    bzip2
    coreutils
    cpio
    diffutils
    fedora-release
    findutils
    gawk
    gcc
    gcc-c++
    grep
    gzip
    info
    make
    patch
    redhat-rpm-config
    rpm-build
    sed
    shadow-utils
    tar
    unzip
    util-linux
    which
    xz

This looks like a minimal buildroot to me, so I commenced with that list:

$ koji add-group-pkg f19-build build bash bzip2 coreutils cpio diffutils fedora-release findutils gawk gcc gcc-c++ grep gzip info make patch redhat-rpm-config rpm-build sed shadow-utils tar unzip util-linux which xz

I believe these are now "in place" correctly since:

$ koji list-groups f19-build
build  [f19-build]
  bash: None, default  [f19-build]
  bzip2: None, default  [f19-build]
  coreutils: None, default  [f19-build]
  cpio: None, default  [f19-build]
  diffutils: None, default  [f19-build]
  fedora-release: None, default  [f19-build]
  findutils: None, default  [f19-build]
  gawk: None, default  [f19-build]
  gcc: None, default  [f19-build]
  gcc-c++: None, default  [f19-build]
  grep: None, default  [f19-build]
  gzip: None, default  [f19-build]
  info: None, default  [f19-build]
  make: None, default  [f19-build]
  patch: None, default  [f19-build]
  redhat-rpm-config: None, default  [f19-build]
  rpm-build: None, default  [f19-build]
  sed: None, default  [f19-build]
  shadow-utils: None, default  [f19-build]
  tar: None, default  [f19-build]
  unzip: None, default  [f19-build]
  util-linux: None, default  [f19-build]
  which: None, default  [f19-build]
  xz: None, default  [f19-build]

However, when I resubmitted my build request, it failed and I see the same warnings/errors in the logs.  I also see this in /var/log/kojid.log:

2013-10-22 16:48:57,582 [DEBUG] koji.TaskManager: bins: {'1:noarch': 1, '2:noarch': 1, '1:x86_64': 1, '1:i386': 1, '2:x86_64': 1, '2:i386': 1}
2013-10-22 16:49:12,598 [DEBUG] koji: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/koji/__init__.py", line 1895, in _callMethod
    return self._sendCall(handler, headers, request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/koji/__init__.py", line 1806, in _sendCall
    return self._sendOneCall(handler, headers, request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/koji/__init__.py", line 1825, in _sendOneCall
    cnx.send(request)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 805, in send
    self.sock.sendall(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/koji/ssl/SSLConnection.py", line 111, in sendall
    self.close()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/koji/ssl/SSLConnection.py", line 82, in close
    self.shutdown()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/koji/ssl/SSLConnection.py", line 53, in shutdown
    self.__dict__["conn"].shutdown()
Error: []

2013-10-22 16:49:12,599 [INFO] koji: Try #1 for call 1328 (listBuildroots) failed: []



I suspect I'm really close now, but have done something silly that's not obvious to me.  Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji/ServerBootstrap

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John Florian