Building for RHEL8 on Fedora
I have a personal repo in which I build various packages for a number
of different targets including Fedora and RHEL. Up to now I have always
built against CentOS for RHEL targets but since CentOS 8 doesn't have
long to live, I thought I'd move over to using RHEL8 with a personal
developer subscription.
Using this guide:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki/Feature-rhelchroots
I have been able to get mock working with RHEL8 to do builds.
I am wondering what I will need to do when I re-install my builder with
Fedora 35 when the time comes. Do I need to unregister the system
whilst running Fedora 34 and then re-register the fresh Fedora 35
install? Or is there a way to carry forward the existing registration
to the new installation?
The other problem I have is that I cannot get "dnf repoclosure" to work
for the RHEL8 target. I use the same sort of repo configurations as
used in mock but just get this:
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'rhel-rhel8': Cannot
download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors
were tried
If I try to run it as non-root, it's even worse, getting things like
this:
2021-07-02 15:51:44,090 [ERROR] dnf:913533:MainThread @logutil.py:200 - [Errno 13]
Permission denied: '/var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log' - Further logging output will be
written to stderr
2021-07-02 15:51:44,127 [WARNING] dnf:913533:MainThread @logutil.py:154 - logging already
initialized
2021-07-02 15:51:44,127 [ERROR] dnf:913533:MainThread @identity.py:156 - Reload of
consumer identity cert /etc/pki/consumer/cert.pem raised an exception with msg: [Errno 13]
Permission denied: '/etc/pki/consumer/key.pem'
This all seems rather painful. Am I missing something?
I'm quite tempted to use Rocky or Alma instead, which I'd expect to be far less
hassle.
Paul.