Can not use mirrorlist with RHEL $releasever (bz#1175566)

[Ian Wienand]

Hi,

I'd like to try and find the/a person who could help out with [1].

EPEL version updates are a fairly constant annoyance that causes
issues with CI systems in upstream openstack when the version updates.

As described in the bug, I'd really like to just setup a .repo file
with

  http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-$releasever&arc...

to install "epel-release" and things should just work to always grab
the latest release.  However [6|7]Server, as given in $releasever by
RHEL/Centos, don't work as a path.

Any suggestions on how we can get this fixed?

-i

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175566

[Kevin Fenzi]

This isn't a mirrormanager issue. 

See: 

https://fedorahosted.org/epel/ticket/8

kevin

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 01/08/2015 11:13 PM, Ian Wienand wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I'd like to try and find the/a person who could help out with [1].
>  
>  EPEL version updates are a fairly constant annoyance that causes
>  issues with CI systems in upstream openstack when the version updates.
>  
>  As described in the bug, I'd really like to just setup a .repo file
>  with
>  
>    http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-$releasever&arc...
>  
>  to install "epel-release" and things should just work to always grab
>  the latest release.  However [6|7]Server, as given in $releasever by
>  RHEL/Centos, don't work as a path.
>  
>  Any suggestions on how we can get this fixed? 
I have been facing this in Copr and mock where you was unable to set additional repos for
project because:
  https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/foo/bar/epel-$releasever-...
was expanded to {6,7}Server as you stated.

The only solution is to create your own maping and pass it to yum using --releasever
In mock I done it that e.g. /etc/mock/epel-6-x86_64.cfg has
  config_opts['releasever'] = '6'
and mock have this defined for every chroot config and pass this value to --releasever of
yum/dnf.

This way you can actually pass to mockchain
--addrepo='https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/foo/bar/epel-$releasever-$basearch/'
and it will work as expected.

I'm not sure if this will help you in your specific case thou.

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