[fedora-arm] Confusion with arm koji

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Martin,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> Peter, Fedorans,
>
> I'm playing with test builds using F14 for arm. And I get strange
> errors of f14 python packages that depend on python 2.6. And yet, when
> I look at koji, it clearly has newer RPMs...
>
> So for example, see python-decorator:
> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=7698
>
> Right now, it lists
> python-decorator-3.2.0-2.fc14   pbrobinson      2011-07-23 10:55:56
> python-decorator-3.2.0-3.fc14   pbrobinson      2011-05-25 19:47:30
>
> The -3 package is newer, but was build earlier than the -2 package.
> Looking at the changelog, the -3 rev is where the Python 2.7 rebuild
> happened.
>
> Now if I grab the pkg list, it offers python-decorator-3.2.0-2.fc14
> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/repos/dist-f14-build/latest/arm/pkglist
>
> I've had similar problems with other Python packages. Anybody can help
> me understand why? Any fixes? Workarounds?
>
>
Its a known problem. Mash (or what ever it is that generates the koji build
repo) uses some very random criteria for tagging packages into the build
repo. This is causing problems for noarch packages that are just imported by
build-previous as opposed to rebuilt esp for python. The problem is that
some of the packages, like the one you mention, were rebuilt/imported
explicitly to get the build root for koji up to a F-14 level. It should
hopefully just disappear once we have build-previous go to completion. The
real fix it to add a check for the script to check if a later release is
already in the tree.

Peter
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