Initial mock build targets for Mageia Cauldron and request for info on metalink setup

[Neal Gompa]

Hello all,

Over the last several months, I've been working in Mageia on enabling
the use of DNF for managing software in the distribution[0]. One of
the consequences of this is that we're now able to have packages built
using Mock. Indeed, it was intended as part of the development to
enable building with Mock, and in the past, I talked to Miroslav Suchý
about also getting Mageia supported as a target in Copr. Of course, he
mentioned a prerequisite for this is having Mock support.

Today, I'm pleased to provide a patch to do just that. The attached
patch adds the initial build target configs for Mageia Cauldron on
32-bit and 64-bit x86.

I say initial because we do intend to have metalinks going very soon,
and I would like to change the configuration files to use metalinks
instead of a direct URL. However, I do not know how we need to set up
metalinks for DNF to use them. In addition, we would also like to
support the automatic redirection to a mirror when using http URLs (as
download.fp.o does) for our legacy package manager, urpmi (which will
remain the primary for Mageia 6 for various reasons). If there's
anyone who could help us out on this, it would be greatly appreciated.

In any case, the configs are available as the attached patch, pointing
to a specific mirror (mirrors.kernel.org) for now.

[0]: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:Add_DNF_as_Alternate_Repository_Manager

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[Miroslav Suchý]

Dne 14.3.2016 v 02:47 Neal Gompa napsal(a):
>  Today, I'm pleased to provide a patch to do just that. The
> attached
>  patch adds the initial build target configs for Mageia Cauldron on
>  32-bit and 64-bit x86. 
I see several problems:

1) mock -r etc/mock/mageia-cauldron-x86_64.cfg --shell
...
Start: shell
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
directory
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
directory
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_MESSAGES: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
directory
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_NUMERIC: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
directory
sh: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
directory
<mock-chroot>sh-4.3#


2) the gpg keys points to web rather to file system. Hmm, I just added mageia keys to
distribution-gpg-keys and I will
later remove all gpg keys from mock and instead I will use keys from distribution-gpg-keys
package, which will be new
dependency.

But yes it works, I treat it as initial work. So lets give it chance for wider testing.

Committed as:
* fe2c96c (HEAD -> devel, origin/devel) Initial build target configs for Mageia
Cauldron

Thank you for the contribution.

-- 
Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  Dne 14.3.2016 v 02:47 Neal Gompa napsal(a):
> > Today, I'm pleased to provide a patch to do just that. The attached
> > patch adds the initial build target configs for Mageia Cauldron on
> > 32-bit and 64-bit x86.
>
>  I see several problems:
>
>  1) mock -r etc/mock/mageia-cauldron-x86_64.cfg --shell
>  ...
>  Start: shell
>  sh: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
> directory
>  sh: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
> directory
>  sh: warning: setlocale: LC_MESSAGES: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
> directory
>  sh: warning: setlocale: LC_NUMERIC: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
> directory
>  sh: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale (cs_CZ.UTF-8): No such file or
> directory
>  <mock-chroot>sh-4.3#
>  
I didn't think mock pulled in the host's locale stuff...

After speaking to folks in #mageia-dev about it, it appears that it is
because we don't install any locales by default. Locales are
controlled through the "locales" package and languages are provided
through its various subpackages. I think the setup is similar to how
Fedora now has it in F24 and rawhide. By default, the "C" locale is
what is provided as the bare minimum one.

If you have any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it. If you also
have any feedback you'd like to let the Mageia folks know, please drop
a line in #mageia-dev (IRC) or dev(a)ml.mageia.org (dev mailing list).
That way, people with deeper knowledge than I can address it.

>  2) the gpg keys points to web rather to file system. Hmm, I just added mageia keys to
> distribution-gpg-keys and I will
>  later remove all gpg keys from mock and instead I will use keys from
> distribution-gpg-keys package, which will be new
>  dependency.
>
>  But yes it works, I treat it as initial work. So lets give it chance for wider testing.
>
>  Committed as:
>  * fe2c96c (HEAD -> devel, origin/devel) Initial build target configs for Mageia
> Cauldron
>
>  Thank you for the contribution.
>  
Thank you for merging that in!



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[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 01:43:44PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  controlled through the "locales" package and languages are
> provided
>  through its various subpackages. I think the setup is similar to how
>  Fedora now has it in F24 and rawhide. By default, the "C" locale is
>  what is provided as the bare minimum one. 
"C" or "C.utf8"?

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 01:43:44PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > controlled through the "locales" package and languages are provided
> > through its various subpackages. I think the setup is similar to how
> > Fedora now has it in F24 and rawhide. By default, the "C" locale is
> > what is provided as the bare minimum one.
>
>  "C" or "C.utf8"?
>  
It is "C". There's a nice discussion going on in #mageia-dev about
this, since I forwarded on Miroslav's feedback. Apparently, it causes
quite a bit of problems with certain packages already with builds done
with iurt (our current equivalent to mock), and people have been
forcing locale definitions to make things build.



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