PSA: epel-rpm-macros in EL5 mock buildroots

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Something went wrong when epel-rpm-macros-5 was added to the EPEL5
buildroot such that it works fine in koji but isn't actually present
when you build in mock.  So if you were trying to de-cruft your specs
and found that things weren't working as you expected when you did a
mock build, that's why.

Unfortunately the issue has turned out to be complicated since before
this comps hadn't changed since 2012 and something has probably broken
in an odd way.  The rel-eng folks are looking into things.  Note that
this also appears to break yom groupinfo and the like for any
EPEL5-related things.

In the meantime, if you want to just work around this yourself, edit
/etc/mock/epel-5-*.cfg and add "epel-rpm-macros" to
config_opts['chroot_setup_cmd'].  That will give you what koji has
currently.

 - J<

[Dave Johansen]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu&gt;
wrote:

>  Something went wrong when epel-rpm-macros-5 was added to the EPEL5
>  buildroot such that it works fine in koji but isn't actually present
>  when you build in mock.  So if you were trying to de-cruft your specs
>  and found that things weren't working as you expected when you did a
>  mock build, that's why.
>
>  Unfortunately the issue has turned out to be complicated since before
>  this comps hadn't changed since 2012 and something has probably broken
>  in an odd way.  The rel-eng folks are looking into things.  Note that
>  this also appears to break yom groupinfo and the like for any
>  EPEL5-related things.
>
>  In the meantime, if you want to just work around this yourself, edit
>  /etc/mock/epel-5-*.cfg and add "epel-rpm-macros" to
>  config_opts['chroot_setup_cmd'].  That will give you what koji has
>  currently.
>  
To my knowledge mock for EL 5 has been broken for several months now:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:47:42 -0700
Dave Johansen <davejohansen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  To my knowledge mock for EL 5 has been broken for several months
> now:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
yet, there are el5 builds in koji that work fine. ;) 

Builders in koji are f23, so could be some difference between that and
rhel7. 

kevin

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "DJ" == Dave Johansen
> <davejohansen(a)gmail.com&gt; writes: 
DJ> To my knowledge mock for EL 5 has been broken for several months
DJ> now:

I've had no problems using it.  I did rebuild all of EPEL5 at least ten
times recently and while there were plenty of failures I'm pretty sure
those failures were due to broken packages, not mock.

 - J<

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

The releng folks managed to get to the bottom of this and fix the
underlying issue, so epel5 mock builds should now have the
epel-rpm-macros package available for your specfile de-crufting needs.

And remember, epel-rpm-macros-5 with functioning %autosetup is now in
testing.  Should make it to stable in about nine days assuming it
doesn't get karma.

 - J<