New release of Mock (fixes and subscription-manager support)

[Miroslav Suchý]

Hi,
I released new version of Mock and mock-core-configs. For full release notes see:
  https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki/Release-Notes-1.4.18
I just submitted packages to Bodhi.

I would like to point two things here:

1) It should fixes all those issues you reported in past days (selinux, rprivate, groupadd).
2) Mock now supports subscription-manager, which allows you to build packages for RHEL with cost-free developer license.
No need to wait for CentOS 8.

Big thanks to Pavel Raiskup who done those two things.

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 10:20, Miroslav Suchý  wrote:
> Hi,
> I released new version of Mock and mock-core-configs. For full release notes see:
>   https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki/Release-Notes-1.4.18
> I just submitted packages to Bodhi.
>
> I would like to point two things here:
> It should fixes all those issues you reported in past days (selinux, rprivate, groupadd).
> Mock now supports subscription-manager, which allows you to build packages for RHEL with cost-free developer license.
>
> No need to wait for CentOS 8.
>
> Big thanks to Pavel Raiskup who done those two things.

Note that this drops python2 support. You will need Python36 on any
system using.

Also note that mock will no longer be targeted to build on EL-7
systems sometime next spring (2020). I believe this means that mock
will no longer be supported or built in EPEL-7 as it is probably no
longer built in EPEL-6 these days. You will need to use EL-8 boxes to
build but can target EL-6/EL-7 builds. [I don't know if you can build
EL-5 but I know people need to do so still so I am not sure how to do
that.]

[Orion Poplawski]

On 8/27/19 9:08 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 10:20, Miroslav Suchý  wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I released new version of Mock and mock-core-configs. For full release notes see:
> >    https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki/Release-Notes-1.4.18
> > I just submitted packages to Bodhi.
> >
> > I would like to point two things here:
> > It should fixes all those issues you reported in past days (selinux, rprivate, groupadd).
> > Mock now supports subscription-manager, which allows you to build packages for RHEL with cost-free developer license.
> >
> > No need to wait for CentOS 8.
> >
> > Big thanks to Pavel Raiskup who done those two things.
>
> Note that this drops python2 support. You will need Python36 on any
> system using.
>
> Also note that mock will no longer be targeted to build on EL-7
> systems sometime next spring (2020). I believe this means that mock
> will no longer be supported or built in EPEL-7 as it is probably no
> longer built in EPEL-6 these days. You will need to use EL-8 boxes to
> build but can target EL-6/EL-7 builds. [I don't know if you can build
> EL-5 but I know people need to do so still so I am not sure how to do
> that.]

Well, building much of anything new in Fedora land on EL-7 seems pretty 
much impossible due to rpm changes so the useful lifetime of EL-7 for a 
Fedora and EPEL contributor is already essentially at an end.  Centos 8 
can't come fast enough...

[Miroslav Suchý]

Dne 29. 08. 19 v 5:50 Orion Poplawski napsal(a):
> Well, building much of anything new in Fedora land on EL-7 seems pretty much impossible due to rpm changes so the useful
> lifetime of EL-7 for a Fedora and EPEL contributor is already essentially at an end.  Centos 8 can't come fast enough...

If you mean change of payload in F31, then CentOS 8 will not help you because rpm there does not support zstd as well.
It is tracked here:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1715799

[Avram Lubkin]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:20 AM Miroslav Suchý  wrote:
> Mock now supports subscription-manager, which allows you to build
>
> packages for RHEL with cost-free developer license.
> No need to wait for CentOS 8.

Does this work when using Fedora as the base system? subscription-manager
is available in the Fedora repos and a Fedora system can be registered to
RHN, but that doesn't seem sufficient to access the repos through mock.

[Miroslav Suchý]

Dne 10. 09. 19 v 15:13 Avram Lubkin napsal(a):
> Does this work when using Fedora as the base system?

Yes, it works.
> subscription-manager is available in the Fedora repos and a Fedora
> system can be registered to RHN, but that doesn't seem sufficient to access the repos through mock.

Can you elaborate on "but that doesn't seem sufficient to access". What does not work for you?
Do you have subscribed to RHN and do you have entitlement?